caa a22 4500 386328439 CHVBK 20180307111701.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022226700012147 doi S0022226700012147 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022226700012147 Schlesinger I. M. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Instruments as agents: on the nature of semantic relations [Elektronische Daten] [I. M. Schlesinger] There is a widespread current assumption that the semantic relations underlying linguistic constructions reflect the way human beings ineluctably, and hence universally, perceive events and situations. This assumption will be questioned in this paper. To make the point, a linguistic construction purportedly expressing the instrumental case will be examined. It will be convenient here to juxtapose my treatment of this construction with the one proposed by case grammarians, and by Fillmore in particular. However, the discussion has implications for semantic relations in any linguistic theory, whether they appear there as semantic roles, thematic relations, theta roles, or whatever. These implications will be discussed in the final section. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/1(1989-03), 189-210 0022-2267 25:1<189 1989 25 LIN https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700012147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700012147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schlesinger I. M. Hebrew University of Jerusalem NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/1(1989-03), 189-210 0022-2267 25:1<189 1989 25 LIN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge