
Discourse and Meaning
Papers in honor of Eva Hajicova
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 29. February 1996
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Hardback
430 pages
978-90-272-2146-9 (ISBN)
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A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajicova, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics. Her broadly acknowledged contribution to syntax, topic-focus studies, discourse analysis and natural language processing is reflected in the papers by 30 authors, divided in five sections (Discourse, Meaning, Focus, Translation, Structure).
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English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
700 gr
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978-90-272-2146-9 (9789027221469)
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1. Preface; 2. Contents; 3. Tabula gratulatoria; 4. 1. Foreword; 5. Although her life with us has not been easy ... (by Panevova, Jarmila); 6. 2. Discourse; 7. Non-propositional encoding of discourse categories (by Yokoyama, Olga T.); 8. The content and form of illocutionary acts (by Horecky, Jan); 9. The sublanguage paradigm: A comprehensive theory of linguistic activity (by Thompson, Bozena Henisz); 10. Knowledge negotiation (by Luelsdorff, Philip A.); 11. 3. Meaning; 12. Allegation and local accommodation (by Partee, Barbara H.); 13. Remarks on substance, function and form (by Schnelle, Helmut); 14. Three kinds of using the identity sign (by Materna, Pavel); 15. On what is impossible entailing everything (by Boguslawski, Andrzej); 16. Some remarks on homonymy and polysemy (by Uhlenbeck, Eugenius M.); 17. The meaning of Meaning in the Prague school (by Leska, Oldrich); 18. Your metaphor or mine: Belief ascription and metaphor interpretation (by Wilks, Yorick); 19. On real mother, real man and similar expressions (by Ivic, Milka); 20. 4. Focus; 21. The focus and scope of only (by McCawley, James D.); 22. Grammatical implementation of the dominance of subject and focus (by Sigurd, Bengt); 23. A note on rhematic disagreements in early child language (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 24. Mobility of clause constituents and functional sentence perspective (by Firbas, Jan); 25. Topic and focus in a formal framework (by Peregrin, Jaroslav); 26. Wh-extraction and the topic-focus articulation of the sentence (by Koktova, Eva); 27. Theme-rheme structure: Its exponents and its semantic interpretation (by Paducheva, Elena V.); 28. 5. Translation; 29. Some rationales and methodologies for example-based machine translation (by Nagao, Makoto); 30. Les belles infideles: Fidelity as a criterion of good translation (by King, Margaret); 31. Preference mechanisms of the Multra machine translation system (by Hein, Anna Sagvall); 32. 6. Structure; 33. Structural and communicative hierarchies in participial adjuncts (by Ruzicka, Rudolf); 34. Writing down the speech of very small children by English graphemes (by Vachek, Josef); 35. Tough constructions of Japanese and English in HPSG framework (by Ikeya, Akira); 36. On quantification in grammar and semantics (by Tesitelova, Marie); 37. Fitting languages into a model of language modelled on language (by Miseska Tomic, Olga); 38. Some peculiarities of Czech relational adjectives (by Townsend, Charles E.); 39. Afterword; 40. Eva Hajicova - An appreciation (by Partee, Barbara H.); 41. Selected bibliography of Eva Hajicova; 42. Name Index; 43. Subject Index