The Syntax of Sentence and Text

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Preface; 3. Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Professor Frantisek Danes, PhDr., DrSc; 4. I. Prague School Functionalism; 5. Factionalism versus Formalism in East and West (by Beaugrande, Robert de); 6. Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuzz (by Enkvist, Nils Erik); 7. Karl Buhler's Field Theory in the Light of the Current Interest in Pragmatics (by Garvin, Paul L.); 8. Vilem Mathesius as One of the Forerunners of Modern Textological Research (by Vachek, Josef); 9. II. Functional Sentence Perspective and Thematic Progressions; 10. "I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again": Information Structure in Writing (by Davies, Martin); 11. Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 12. On Thematic Configurations in Texts: Orientation and goals (by Duszak, Anna); 13. Substantiating Danes's View of Givenness as a Graded Phenomenon (by Firbas, Jan); 14. Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals? (by Harweg, Roland); 15. Discourse as Determinacy (by Luelsdorff, Philip A.); 16. Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition: The Topic - Comment Structure of Initial Text Sentences from a Semiotic Textological Point of View (by Petofi, Janos Sander); 17. Functional Sentence Perspective in Modern and Old Javanese (by Uhlenbeck, Eugenius M.); 18. III. Text and Discourse; 19. Discontinuity in Texts (by Conte, Maria-Elisabeth); 20. Voices of Intention and Interpretation: On "The Czech Dreambook" by Ludvik Vaculik (by Cmejrkova, Svetla); 21. On the Means of Expressing Vagueness and Uncertainty in Czech Discourse (by Hoffmannova, Jana); 22. Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles of a Text Structure (by Kraus, Jiri); 23. On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and Written Text (by Mullerova, Olga); 24. 'Passive' Moves in Argumentation (by Stati, Sorin); 25. E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium and its Effects upon the Message (by Uhlirova, Ludmila); 26. From Syntax to Text: Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L2 (by Ventola, Eija); 27. IV. Grammar and Semantics; 28. Notes on the Functions of Grammatical Units in Language System and in Discourse (by Bondarko, Alexander V.); 29. Sentential Complementation and Truth (by Boguslawski, Andrzej); 30. Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual Features in Oral Narrative Prose (by Seiler, Hansjakob); 31. Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar (by Sticha, Frantisek); 32. On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German (jenz - ktery, der - welcher) (by Komarek, Miroslav); 33. Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech (Analytical Predicates) (by Machackova, Eva); 34. Potential Valency Components from the Point of View of Historical Lexicography (by Nemec, Igor); 35. Subject Index