Charles J. Fillmore

Charles John Fillmore ( born August 9, 1929 in St. Paul, Minnesota, † February 13, 2014 in San Francisco) was an American linguist. He was the founder of Kasusgrammatik and frame semantics, and one of the founders and most important representatives of the construction grammar. Outside of linguistics in the narrower sense his work on frame semantics also had an important influence on methods of lexicography.

Career

Fillmore received his doctorate in 1961 at the University of Michigan. From 1961 to 1971 he was Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. From 1971 until his retirement he was Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Most recently he was the head of the FrameNet project. He died on February 13, 2014 from cancer.

Developed in the early phase of his career Fillmore as part of his theory of transformational grammar Kasusgrammatik, which assumed that each noun phrase in a sentence has a so-called deep cases which determines its syntactic behavior. Fillmore sparked his idea of ​​deep cases soon of transformational grammar from and developed as part of its frame semantics to a more general theory of semantic roles on. Fillmore was initially no longer primarily interested in the grammatical properties of semantic roles. Later, when the frame semantics have been integrated into the main versions of Construction Grammar, also moved the relationship between the semantic role and syntactic behavior of noun phrases back into focus of his research.

Works (selection)

  • " The Case for Case. " In E. Bach and R. Harms ( eds. ): Universals in Linguistic Theory. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968, pp. 1-88.
  • With BT Atkins: Towards a frame -based lexicon: the case of RISK. In: A. Teachers and E. Kittay (eds. ): Frames, Fields, and Contrasts. New Essays in Semantic and Lexical Organization. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 1992, pp. 75-102.
  • " Corpus linguistics" vs. "Computer -aided armchair linguistics". In J. Svartvik (ed. ): Directions in Corpus Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, pp. 35-60.
  • Humor in academic discourse. In AD Grimshaw and PJ Burke ( eds. ): What's going on here? Complementary studies of professional talks. Norwood NJ: Ablex, 1994, pp. 271-310.
  • With BT Atkins: Starting where the dictionaries stop: the challenge of corpus lexicography. In BT Atkins and A. Zampolli (eds. ): Computational Approaches to the Lexicon. Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 349-393.
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