A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis

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Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis

Vilém Mathesius(Autor*in)

Josef Vachek(Herausgeber*in)

De Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 5. Juli 2013

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Intro
Introduction : On the scientific study of language
1. Currents of linguistic research
2. Plan of the present analysis
3. Encoding
A. Functional onomatology
I. The meaning of the naming unit
1. The essence and character of the naming unit
2. Components of the naming unit
II. The form of the naming unit
1. Simple and descriptive naming units
2. The word. General considerations
3. Non-compound words
4. Compound words
a) Definition of compound words
b) Types of compounds
c) Features of collocations
d) Verbal compounds and collocations in English
5. Shortening of words and coining of new naming units
III. Classification of naming units
1. The problem of the parts of speech (word categories)
2. Formal differences between the word categories in English
3. The relation between substantives and adjectives in English
4. The relation between nouns and verbs in English
5. The relation between adjectives and adverbs in English
IV. Classification within the word categories
1. Formal classification, aspectual modifications and categorial transitions
2. Formal classification and aspectual modifications of nouns
a) Gender of nouns
b) Aspectual modification of grammatical number
c) Aspectual modification of definiteness (Uses of the articles)
3. Categorial transitions of nouns
4. Formal classification and aspectual modifications of adjectives
5. Categorial transitions of adjectives
6. Formal categories and aspectual modifications of verbs
a) Formal categories of the verb
b) Aspectual modifications of the verb
a) General survey
ß) Tense
?) Remarks on the problems of tense in English
d) Verbal aspect
e) Mood
7. Categorial transitions of the verb in English
a) The relation of the action to the subject
b) The relation of the action to the object
a) Subjective and objective verbs
ß) Reflexive verbs
B. Functional syntax
I. Definition of the sentence
II. Functional sentence analysis
1. The basis and the nucleus of a statement
2. One-element and two-element sentences from the point of view of functional sentence perspective
3. Functional and formal analysis of the sentence
III. Formal analysis of simple sentences
1. General remarks
2. One-element verbless thetic sentences
3. One-element verbless predicative sentences
4. Two-element verbless sentences
5. Apposition
6. Absolute construction
7. Verbal sentences
a) General remarks
b) Grammatical person
8. The function of the subject in English
9. Predication in English
a) Actional predication from the formal point of view
b) Actional predication from the semantic point of view: active predication
c) Types of passive actional predication
d) Qualifying predication
e) Other types of predication
10. The object in English
a) General remarks
b) Object of the accusative type
c) Object of the dative type
d) Object of the genitive type
e) Other types of object
11. The attribute in English
a) Adjectival attribute
b) Substantival attribute
12. Adverbials in English
a) General remarks
b) Expression of adverbials in English
IV. The English sentence as a whole
1. Means of complex condensation
a) General remarks
b) English participles
c) The infinitive and the gerund in English
d) Complex constructions
2. The word order of the English sentence
a) Principles determining the order of words in a language
b) Other problems of English word order
3. Strengthening and emphasis
4. Notes on negation
V. Notes on other problems of functional syntax
1. Compound and complex sentences
2. The uses of moods and tenses
Notes
Bibliography
Editor's postscript to the original Czech edition (1961)
Postscript to the English translation (1973)
Index of persons
Index of subjects
Index of words

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