The Syntax of Sentence and Text

A Festschrift for František Daneš

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Svĕtla Čmejrková

František Štícha

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This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of František Daneš and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Daneš' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in the 27 papers collected in four thematic sections of this volume.

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 42] 1994. 398 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 November 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/llsee.42

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. 9

Preface | p. 11

Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Professor František Daneš, PhDr., DrSc | p. 17

I. Prague School Functionalism

Factionalism versus Formalism in East and West

Robert de Beaugrande | p. 29

Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuzz

Nils Erik Enkvist | p. 43

Karl Bühler's Field Theory in the Light of the Current Interest in Pragmatics

Paul L. Garvin | p. 59

Vilém Mathesius as One of the Forerunners of Modern Textological Research

Josef Vachek | p. 67

II. Functional Sentence Perspective and Thematic Progressions

“I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again”: Information Structure in Writing

Martin Davies | p. 75

Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics

Wolfgang U. Dressler | p. 89

On Thematic Configurations in Texts: Orientation and goals

Anna Duszak | p. 105

Substantiating Daneš's View of Givenness as a Graded Phenomenon

Jan Firbas | p. 119

Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals?

Roland Harweg | p. 131

Discourse as Determinacy

Philip A. Luelsdorff | p. 147

Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition: The Topic - Comment Structure of Initial Text Sentences from a Semiotic Textological Point of View

János Sánder Petöfi | p. 165

Functional Sentence Perspective in Modern and Old Javanese

Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck | p. 179

III. Text and Discourse

Discontinuity in Texts

Maria-Elisabeth Conte | p. 195

Voices of Intention and Interpretation: On “The Czech Dreambook” by Ludvík Vaculík

Svĕtla Čmejrková | p. 205

On the Means of Expressing Vagueness and Uncertainty in Czech Discourse

Jana Hoffmannová | p. 219

Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles of a Text Structure

Jirí Kraus | p. 237

On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and Written Text

Olga Müllerová | p. 247

‘Passive’ Moves in Argumentation

Sorin Stati | p. 259

E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium and its Effects upon the Message

Ludmila Uhlírová | p. 273

From Syntax to Text: Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L2

Eija Ventola | p. 283

IV. Grammar and Semantics

Notes on the Functions of Grammatical Units in Language System and in Discourse

Alexander V. Bondarko | p. 307

Sentential Complementation and Truth

Andrzej Bogusławski | p. 317

Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual Features in Oral Narrative Prose

Hansjakob Seiler | p. 333

Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar

František Štícha | p. 341

On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German (jenž - který, der - welcher)

Miroslav Komárek | p. 359

Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech (Analytical Predicates)

Eva Machácková | p. 365

Potential Valency Components from the Point of View of Historical Lexicography

Igor Němec | p. 375

Subject Index | p. 383

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