Chuck Fillmore, who is widely known for his work on case grammar and
related issues, died at age 84. George Lakoff wrote a very nice
summary of his life and work: (01)
http://georgelakoff.com/2014/02/18/charles-fillmore-discoverer-of-frame-semantics-dies-in-sf-at-84-he-figured-out-how-framing-works/ (02)
I agree with almost all of what Lakoff wrote. My only reservation
is his claim that all the great ideas in cognitive science were
invented in the past 40 years -- and usually in some group in
which he participated. (03)
Fillmore certainly deserves a great deal of credit for his work on
case grammar. But the following articles provide some background
on related work: (04)
Minsky's 1974 article on frames (see the bibliography): (05)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html (06)
My article on semantic networks: (07)
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm (08)
For my review of Lakoff's 1999 book (generally positive),
but with some criticism of his writing style: (09)
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/lakoff.htm (010)
John (011)
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