Language in its multifarious aspects / Petr Sgall.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sgall, Petr, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Language and languages.
• Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Prague, Czech Republic : Charles University : The Karolinum Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Výjimecná kniha vybraných studií predního ceského lingvisty a clena Pražského lingvistického kroužku obsahuje 26 prací v anglickém a 4 v nemeckém jazyce. Predvádí široké spektrum Sgallova záberu a v šesti cástech predstavuje hlavní okruhy autorova zájmu - první cást knihy se venuje obecným a teoretickým otázkám, druhý predstavuje Sgallovy príspevky k syntaxi, tretí se týká aktuálního clenení , ctvrtý vety a diskurzu, pátý typologie jazyka a poslední mluvy a písma.

Contents:

• List of Contents; Introduction; A. General and Theoretical Issues ; 1. Types of languages and the simple pattern of the core of language; 2. Freedom of language Its nature, its sources, and its consequences*; 3. On comparison of approaches (Remarks and illustrations); 4. Functionalism in Czech linguistics and in the world; 5. Structure, meaning and use; 6. Formal and Computational Linguistics in Prague; 7. Underlying structure of sentences and its relations to semantics; 8. dependency based specification of topic and focus II - Formal account
• 9. Generative Beschreibung und die Ebenen des Sprachsystems 10. Introduction to Linguistic Mourphology*; B. Syntax; 11. Underlying Structures in Annotating Czech National Corpus; 12. Revisiting the classification of the dependents; 13. Case and meaning; C. Topic-focus articulation; 14. From functional sentence perspective to topic-focus articulation; 15. The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research; 16. Wortfolge und Fokus im Deutschen*; 17. Functional sentence perspective in a generative description; D. From sentence to discourse in semantics
• 18. Dynamics in the meaning of sentence and of discourse 19. From meaning via reference to content; 20. Meaning, reference and discourse patterns; E. Typology of languages; 21. Natürlichkeit, Syntax und Typologie; 22. Die Sprachtypologie V. Skalikas; 23. On the notion "type of language"; 24. Zur Typologie des Infinitivs; F. Speaking and writing; 25. Spoken Czech revisited; 26. Towards a theory of phonemic orthography; References; Bibliography of Petr Sgall; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed May 27, 2014).

ISBN:

• 9788024625478
• 8024625474

OCLC:

908097472