Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague n.s : Prague Linguistic Circle papers. Volume 2 / edited by Eva Hajičová ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hajičová, Eva.

Pražský linguistický kroužek.

Series:

Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague ; 2.

Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague, 1383-7583 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Structural linguistics.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Pražský linguistický kroužek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930's. In the present volume, nine Czech linguists and eight authors from abroad present new ideas in various domains from basic properties of the system of language to discourse types and to history of linguistics in the 20th century. Fundamental issues of structural linguistics are discussed by C.H. van Schooneveld and

Contents:

TRAVAUX DU CERCLE LINGUISTIQUE DE PRAGUE n.s. PRAGUE LINGUISTIC CIRCLE PAPERS; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of Contents; I. FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES; What Has the Prague School Given to Linguistics and to Science ?; NOTES; REFERENCES; Ferdinand de Saussure and the Prague School of Linguistics; 0. Introduction; 1. Some of the originally Prague principles; 2. Saussurean principles which are not present in the Prague School; 3. Joint Saussurean and Prague principles; 4. Conclusion; REFERENCES; Prague Linguistics and Quantitative Linguistics; NOTE; REFERENCES; II. SENTENCE STRUCTURE

On Getting a Head:1. Introduction to the problem; 2. Morphology; 3. Proto-dependency relations; 4. A primary dependency relation; 5. A theory of zones 4; 6. Secondary dependency relations; 7. Heads and dependents; NOTES; REFERENCES; More Remarks on Control; 1. Introduction; 2. Prerequisites as laid down by the formal framework; 3. Infinitive and control; 4. Deletions with nominaiizations; 5. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; Focusing on the Negative:; The problem; Traditional and neotraditional analyses; Alternative ways of viewing the construction; The analysis; Semantic Integrality

Iconicity and syntagmatic linear order Iconicity and paradigmatic distribution; The date: microlevel analysis; The non-synonymy hypothesis; Macrolevel analysis; Summary and conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; CORPUS; The Semantics of German und; Introduction; 1 General framework; 1.1 Background; 1.2 A hypothesis; 1.3 Propositions and connections; 1.4 Reason relations and opposition bases; 2 Hypotheses on und; 2.1 und-propositions (1); 2.2 und-propositions (2); 2.3 Separating meanings from effects; 2.4 Meanings of und-coordinators; 2.5 Constructing und-propositions; 2.6 Conclusion; REFERENCES

Le désignant discontinu 1. En guise d'une introduction; 2. L'accord; 3. Le cas de la diaphore; 4. Le thème est un co-désignant; 5. Sémion complexe; 6. Formations prémorphologiques; 7. Redistribution des sons. Icône métrique; Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES SELECTIONNEES; III. PHONOLOGY AND GRAPHEMICS; Syllable as a Microfield in Functional Sentence Perspective; 1. Clausal and nominal distributional fields; 2. Syllable constituents; 2.1 Consonants; 2.2 Vowels; 2.3 Strictures; 3. Syllable as a distributional microfield; NOTES; REFERENCES; Determinacy Form as the Essence of Language

Abstract 0. Introduction; 1. Frequency and functionalism; 2. Ambiguity resolution; 3. Ambiguity resolution and orthographic binding; 4. Ambiguity resolution and frequency; 5. Determinacy analysis (DA); 6. Determinacy analysis and orthographic knowledge; NOTES; REFERENCES; Marked and Unmarked Punctuation Signs in English*; Introduction; Other punctuation signs; The role of asymmetry; The patterning of asymmetry; NOTES; REFERENCES; IV. LEXICON; Iconicity in the Lexicon: Its Relevance for Morphology and Its Relation to Semantics 1; Introduction

Part one: Lexical Iconicity and Its Relevance for Morphology

Notes:

Issued by the Prague Linguistic Circle.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35844-1

9786613358448

90-272-7612-9

OCLC:

778617830