Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 14:02:53 +0000 From: paul <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers. Volume 4
Title: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers. Volume 4
Subtitle: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle s�rie
Series Title: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle
linguistique de Prague N.S.
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Eva Hajic^ov�
Editor: Jir� Hana
Editor: Tom�s^ Hoskovec
Editor: Petr Sgall
Hardback: ISBN: 158811175X, Pages: viii, 376, Price: USD 113.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027254443, Pages: viii, 376, Price: EUR 125.00
Abstract:
The fourth volume of the revived series of "Travaux du Cercle
linguistique de Prague" brings three contributions (by J. Vachek,
O. Les^ka and V. Skalicka) connected with the classical period of the
Prague School, as well as papers delivered at the conference
"Function, Form, and Meaning: Bridges and Interfaces", held in Prague
in 1998. Some of the contributions concern issues of grammar of
different languages including a syntactic annotation of a large Czech
text corpus, a comparison of Hebrew conditionals with English, a
characterization of the typology of the Indo-European verb. A further
part focuses on topic-focus articulation (information sentence
structure, functional sentence perspective), with a concept of
"perspective" introduced as close to but distinct from "topic" and
with three different viewpoints on the semantics of information
structure. Two broader essays on the nature of language are then
presented, while the last section analyzes the structure of free
verse. The volume represents a contribution to the continuing fruitful
interaction between the work of the Prague School and the more and
less closely related approaches of linguists in other countries.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Section I: The Prague tradition in retrospect
Prolegomena to the history of the Prague School of Linguistics
Josef Vachek 3
Anton Marty's philosophy of language
Oldrich Les^ka 83
Die Typologie des Ungarischen
Vladim�r Skalicka 101
Section II: Grammar
Theoretical description of language as a basis of corpus annotation:
The case of Prague Dependency Treebank
Eva Hajicov� 111
"Conditionals" in Hebrew and English: same or different?
Yishai Tobin 129
Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-europ�en
(deuxi�me partie)
Tom�s^ Hoskovec 143
Section III: Topic - focus articulation
The Russian genitive of negation in existential sentences: The role of
Theme - Rheme structure reconsidered
Vladimir Borschev and Barbara H. Partee 185
Synonymy vs. differentiation of variant syntactic realizations of FSP
functions
Libus^e Dus^kov� 251
Topic - Focus articulation as generalized quantification
Jaroslav Peregrin 263
Information structure and the partition of sentence meaning
Klaus von Heusinger 275
Section IV: General views
Freedom of language: Its nature, its sources, and its consequences
Petr Sgall 309
The natural order of cognitive events
Philip A. Luelsdorff 331
Section V: Poetics
The principle of free verse
Miroslav C^ervenka 365
Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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