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Introduction
Syntaxandsemanticsaretraditionalareasofthestudyoflanguagerecognisedin
linguisticsandphilosophyoflanguage.Thisoverlapofresearchareasseemsto
besufcientmotivationforfacilitatingencounterofscholarsfromthesefields.
Obviously,linguistsandphilosophersdonotalwaysagreeontherangeoftheo-
reticalissuesincludedinthetwoabove-mentionedareas,keyconcepts,termino-
logicalanddefinitionalproblems,researchmethodology,orempiricaldatataken
intoconsideration.Oneofimportantaspectsofthestudyofsyntaxandsemantics
istheveryneedtodistinguishbetweenthem,especiallygiventhatrecentlysome
linguists(e.g.cognitivelinguists)questionthemotivationforthedemarcation
betweensyntaxandsemantics.
Allofthematterslistedaboverunthroughthecontributionsgatheredinthe
presentvolume.Themajorgoalofthiscollectionistobringtogethertheeorts
oflinguistsandphilosophers(representingdierentschoolsofthoughtwithinre-
spectivedisciplines)tryingtoexploreselectedtopicsinsyntaxandsemantics.The
mostobviouscontrastbetweenlinguisticsandphilosophyoflanguage-thepre-
occupationwiththemorphosyntacticdistributionofspecificlinguisticelements
intheformerandstrivingforprecisesemanticanalysesthatabstractfromlan-
guage-particularmorphosyntacticdetailinthelatter-isstillvisibleinthepapers
presentedbelow.Yet,onecanobservesomedegreeofopennesstoinsightsfrom
philosophicalinvestigationonthepartoflinguistsandfromlinguisticresearchon
thepartofphilosophers.Thisopennessinvolves,amongotherthings,ingesting
theresultsofinvestigationintheotherfield,employmentofterminologyoreven
4borrowing’somemethodsofresearch.
JanuszBadio’schapterisconcernedwithselectedwaysandexamplesof
investigatingeventsandtheirroleinwholenarratives.Fromthetheoreticalpoint
ofview,theauthor’sapproachisgroundedincognitivelinguisticsandcognitive
psychology.Badioemploysthetermshorizontalandverticaltopresentvarious
possibilitiesavailableintheexperimentalstudyofeventsandnarrative.Thedis-
cussionoftheoreticalissuesisfollowedbyanillustrationoftechniquesusedto
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