This volume traces the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore throughout his 30 year career. It is a collection which reflects his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of language form, language use and conventions linking form, meaning and practice. Papers include: 'The position and embedding of transformations in a grammar'; 'Towards a modern theory of case'; 'The case of case'; 'Types of lexical information'; 'Subjects, speakers and roles'; 'Verbs of judging'; 'On generativity'; 'The case for case reopened'; 'Topics in lexical semantics'; 'On the organization of semantic information in the lexicon'; 'Innocence'; 'Towards a descriptive framework for spatial deixis'; 'Monitoring the reading process'; 'Some thoughts on the boundaries and components of linguistics'; 'Frames and the semantics of understanding'; 'Linguistics as a tool for discourse analysis'; 'Pragmatically controlled zero anaphora'; 'Grammatical construction theory and the familiar dichotomies'; 'Clause connectives in Japanese and related mysteries'; 'Constituency vs dependancy'; Humour in academic discourse'.