Article: Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics in Honor of Charles J. Fillmore.

The Jubilar whose sixty-fifth birthday this volume celebrated is best known for his 1968 paper, "The Case for Case."(1) This captured the imagination of a generation that until then had rarely heard "meaning" mentioned in connection with linguistics, one also that had never encountered a language in which grammatical case played much of a part. The initial elan of this discovery has survived better than the case it originally made,(2) but contributors to this book document several of Fillmore's subsequent successes. Particularly noteworthy has been his 1977 discovery that knock in he knocked on the door with his fist means something different from knock in he knocked the ...

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