Contributions to Functional Syntax, Semantics and Language Comprehension
Editor
This volume presents a rather complete survey of the research activities of the Prague group of algebraic linguistics. Some of the papers included bear witness to the fact that algebraic linguistics, or the formal description of language, is not the only domain in which the Prague group is active. Typological and empirically oriented discussions are represented as well, and so are accounts of some of the experimental systems from the domains of computational linguistics and natural language comprehension. Most of the papers included here have been published (partly in Czech) in periodicals and miscellanies, some of which are not easily accessible; a smaller part consists of papers written specifically for the present volume. The volume is divided into four sections, the first of which contains generally oriented papers. The second section consists of contributions devoted to the core of the empirical problems of sentence structure. The third section includes papers concerning specific questions of the syntax of Czech, and section four is oriented towards the experimental systems prepared by the Prague group.
[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 16] 1985. 379 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | p. 5
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Contents | p. 15
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(A) General theoretical issues
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On the notion “type of language”Petr Sgall | p. 19
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Syntax, meaning, and referencePetr Sgall | p. 39
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Optional participants in a semantic interpretation (Arity of predicates and case frames of verbs)Pavel Materna and Petr Sgall | p. 51
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A dependency base for a linguistic descriptionM. Plátek, J. Sgall and Petr Sgall | p. 63
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On presupposition and allegationEva Hajičová | p. 99
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Remarks on text, language and communicationPetr Sgall | p. 123
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(B) Empirical questions of syntax and semantics
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Valency (case) frames of verbsEva Hajičová and Jarmila Panevová | p. 147
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Topic, and focusEva Hajičová | p. 189
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Sentences with general actorJarmila Panevová | p. 203
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(C) Specific issues of grammar
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Case frames of nounsPetr Piťha | p. 225
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On the syntax of some types of pronouns in CzechJ. Weisheitelová and Petr Sgall | p. 239
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Passive voice in the generative description of CzechK. Králíková | p. 259
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Verbal prefixation from the viewpoint of valencyAlla Bémová | p. 275
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(D) Towards systems of automatic comprehension
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Text-and-inference based answering of questionsEva Hajičová and Petr Sgall | p. 291
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Logical and linguistic aspects of computer-based inference processesP. Jirků | p. 321
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On a dependency analysis of English for automatic translationZdeněk Kirschner | p. 335
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Editorial note | p. 359
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List of abbreviations | p. 378
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General