New Book: Hajicova et al.

[Paul Peranteau]

A new work of interest to functional linguists from John Benjamins Publishing
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Title: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers. Volume 4
Subtitle: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série
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^ová
Editor: Jirí Hana
Editor: Tomás^  Hoskovec
Editor: Petr  Sgall

Hardback: ISBN: 158811175X, Pages: viii, 376, Price: USD 113.00 (US & Canada)
Hardback: ISBN: 9027254443, Pages: viii, 376, Price: EUR 125.00 (Rest of world)

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
      Vladimír Skalicka  101
Section II: Grammar
Theoretical description of language as a basis of corpus annotation:
   The case of Prague Dependency Treebank
      Eva Hajicová  111
"Conditionals" in Hebrew and English: same or different?
      Yishai Tobin  129
Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-européen
   (deuxième partie)
      Tomás^ 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^ková  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


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