Main description:
This volume is the first one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. The first volume of the new series is divided into five sections: 1. Introductory papers characterizing the development of the Prague School in the recent decades; 2. Methodological issues of structural and functional linguistics, 3. Sentence structure, 4. Discourse patterns, 5. Theory of literature.
In accordance with the tradition, the volume contains contributions concerning issues of principle, empirical linguistic studies, and also papers from the theory of literature.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I: Introductory Survey
- Prague School teachings of the Classical Period and Beyond
- Formal and computational Linguistics in Prague
- II: Fundamental Issues
- Menschlich Gleichartigkeit und inter- wie intrakulturelle Mannigfaltigkeit
- Jakobson and Chomsky on Markedness
- Functional System and Evaluation
- Structural Linguistics and Formal Semantics
- III: Sentence Structure
- A Contrastive View of Syntactic Ambiguities
- Surface and Underlying Word Order
- Structural Properties of Information Packaging in German and in Universal Grammar
- Underlying Structures and Unification
- IV: Discourse Patterns
- A Static View and a Dynamic View on Text and Discourse
- Discourse Modelling for Automatic Summerising
- V: Views on development
- The Redudancy of Grammatical Agreement as a Development
- Convergent Evolution, Creolization and Referentiality
- Die ersten stufen des Erwerbs der slowenischen Flexion
- The Last of the Canterbury Tales
- VI: Theory of Literature
- A Work as a 'Thing' and as a Sign
- Symbol and the 'Metaphysics of Presence'
- Winston S. Churchill's Use of Alliteration
This volume is the first one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. The first volume of the new series is divided into five sections: 1. Introductory papers characterizing the development of the Prague School in the recent decades; 2. Methodological issues of structural and functional linguistics, 3. Sentence structure, 4. Discourse patterns, 5. Theory of literature.
In accordance with the tradition, the volume contains contributions concerning issues of principle, empirical linguistic studies, and also papers from the theory of literature.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I: Introductory Survey
- Prague School teachings of the Classical Period and Beyond
- Formal and computational Linguistics in Prague
- II: Fundamental Issues
- Menschlich Gleichartigkeit und inter- wie intrakulturelle Mannigfaltigkeit
- Jakobson and Chomsky on Markedness
- Functional System and Evaluation
- Structural Linguistics and Formal Semantics
- III: Sentence Structure
- A Contrastive View of Syntactic Ambiguities
- Surface and Underlying Word Order
- Structural Properties of Information Packaging in German and in Universal Grammar
- Underlying Structures and Unification
- IV: Discourse Patterns
- A Static View and a Dynamic View on Text and Discourse
- Discourse Modelling for Automatic Summerising
- V: Views on development
- The Redudancy of Grammatical Agreement as a Development
- Convergent Evolution, Creolization and Referentiality
- Die ersten stufen des Erwerbs der slowenischen Flexion
- The Last of the Canterbury Tales
- VI: Theory of Literature
- A Work as a 'Thing' and as a Sign
- Symbol and the 'Metaphysics of Presence'
- Winston S. Churchill's Use of Alliteration