Abstract
AbstractChapter 15 deals with the implications of the findings in this book for the theory and methodology of semantic analysis, for linguistic typology, and a most important implication for the formation of utterances in natural discourse. The main implication for semantics is that the primary object of semantic research should be semantic structures encoded in the grammatical system. Once one has analyzed the semantic structure encoded in the language, the description of meaning of individual utterances, the traditional object of research in semantics, is relatively easy. The description of meaning encoded in the grammatical system consists of contrasts encoded in the functional domains. The main implication for typology is that linguistic typology should provide a picture of what functional domains and what functions are encoded in the grammatical system of individual languages. The main implication for the formation of utterances is that this process is driven by the semantic functions encoded in the grammatical system and their interaction with the lexical items selected for a given predication.
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