Syntax-semantics interface / Eva HajicÌŒovaÌ&#x0081.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hajičová, Eva, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Czech Republic : Charles University, Karolinum Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Syntax-Semantics Interface is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajičová between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generative description proposed by Petr Sgall in the early 1960s and developed since. The book reflects Hajičová's research contributions to four main domains: the specification of underlying (deep) sentence structure (analyzed in terms of dependency relations); the information structure of the sentence (topic-focus articulation) and its relation to the specification of presupposition and negation and to other related phenomena; the building of a scheme for an annotated corpus of Czech to serve, among other things, in the verification of theoretical linguistic claims; and some fundamental aspects of discourse structure, namely the concept of the hierarchy of elements in the stock of knowledge shared by speaker and hearer. Through new introductory statements, Hajičová also compares her original findings with current state-of-the-art of linguistic theory at home and abroad.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Bibliographical Notes; 1. Underlying Syntactic Structure; Foreword; Agentive or Actor/Bearer?; Remarks on the Meanings of Cases; 2. Topic-Focus Articulation and Related Issues; Foreword; Vilém Mathesius and Functional Sentence Perspective, and Beyond; Negation and Topic vs. Comment; On Pressupposition and Allegation; Questions on Sentence Prosody Linguists Have Always Wanted to Ask; Surface and Underlying Word Order; The Ordering of Valency Slots from a Communicative Point of View; How Many Topics/Foci?; Rhematizers Revisited

3. Theoretical Description Reflected in Corpus AnnotationForeword; Theoretical Description of Language as a Basis of Corpus Annotation: The Case of Prague Dependency Treebank; What We Have Learned from Complex Annotation of Topic-focus Articulation in a Large Czech Corpus; 4. Beyond the Sentence Boundary; Foreword; Focussing

A Meeting Point of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence; Contextual Boundness and Discourse Patterns Revisited; 5. Comparison with Other Approaches; Foreword; Functional Sentence Perspective and the Latest Developments in Transformational Grammar

A Note on the Order of Constituents in Relation to the Principles of GB theoryPossibilities and Limits of Optimality in Topic-Focus Articulation; The Position of TFA (Information Structure) in a Dependency Based Description of Language; Appendix: A Glimpse Back at Historical Sources; Foreword; Some Experience with the Use of Punched-card Machines for Linguistic Analysis; A Functional Generative Description (Background and Framework); Abstrakt; Abstract; Bibliography

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2018).

ISBN:

9788024637396

8024637391

Publisher Number:

99979015194

Access Restriction:

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