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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786432303321

Autore

Sgall Petr

Titolo

Language in its multifarious aspects / / Petr Sgall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2006

ISBN

80-246-2547-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (556 p.)

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Language and languages

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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