Prague Linguistic Circle papers [electronic resource] = Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague n.s. Volume 4 / edited by Eva Hajicova ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hajičová, Eva.

Series:

Prague Linguistic Circle Papers / Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague N.S. ; 4

Standardized Title:

Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Structural linguistics.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Pražský linguistický kroužek.

Physical Description:

vi, 376 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague n.s

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publ. Co., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fourth volume of the revived series of "Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague" brings three contributions (by J. Vachek, O. Leška and V. Skalička) 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.

Contents:

TRAVAUX DU CERCLE LINGUISTIQUE DE PRAGUE n.s.

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Section I: The Prague tradition in retrospect

Prolegomena to the history of the Prague School of Linguistics

Anton Marty's philosophy of language

Die Typologie des Ungarischen

Section II: Grammar

Theoretical description of language as a basis of corpus annotation

''Conditionals'' in Hebrew and English: same or different?

Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-européen

Part III: Topic-Focus articulation

The Russian genitive of negation in existential sentences

Synonymy vs. differentiation of variant syntactic realizations of FSP functions

Topic-Focus articulation as generalized quantification

Information structure and the partition of sentence meaning

Section IV: General views

Freedom of language

The natural order of cognitive events

Section V: Poetics

The principle of free verse.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612161506

9781282161504

1282161504

9789027296887

902729688X

OCLC:

732804219