Discourse and Meaning

• Preface | p. v
• Contents | p. ix
• Tabula gratulatoria | p. xiii
• 1. Foreword
• Although her life with us has not been easy …
  Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall | p. 3
• 2. Discourse
• Non-propositional encoding of discourse categories
  Olga T. Yokoyama | p. 17
• The content and form of illocutionary acts
  Ján Horecký | p. 31
• The sublanguage paradigm: A comprehensive theory of linguistic activity
  Bozena Henisz Thompson | p. 39
• Knowledge negotiation
  Philip A. Luelsdorff | p. 47
• 3. Meaning
• Allegation and local accommodation
  Barbara H. Partee | p. 65
• Remarks on substance, function and form
  Helmut Schnelle | p. 87
• Three kinds of using the identity sign
  Pavel Materna | p. 95
• On what is impossible entailing everything
  Andrzej Bogusławski | p. 111
• Some remarks on homonymy and polysemy
  Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck | p. 119
• The meaning of Meaning in the Prague school
  Oldřich Leška | p. 127
• Your metaphor or mine: Belief ascription and metaphor interpretation
  Yorick Wilks, John Barnden and Jin Wang | p. 141
• On real mother, real man and similar expressions
  Milka Ivić | p. 163
• 4. Focus
• The focus and scope of only
  James D. McCawley | p. 171
• Grammatical implementation of the dominance of subject and focus
  Bengt Sigurd | p. 195
• A note on rhematic disagreements in early child language
  Wolfgang U. Dressler | p. 205
• Mobility of clause constituents and functional sentence perspective
  Jan Firbas | p. 221
• Topic and focus in a formal framework
  Jaroslav Peregrin | p. 235
• Wh-extraction and the topic-focus articulation of the sentence
  Eva Koktová | p. 255
• Theme-rheme structure: Its exponents and its semantic interpretation
  Elena V. Paducheva | p. 273
• 5. Translation
• Some rationales and methodologies for example-based machine translation
  Makoto Nagao | p. 291
• Les belles infidèles: Fidelity as a criterion of good translation
  Margaret King | p. 307
• Preference mechanisms of the Multra machine translation system
  Anna Sågvall Hein | p. 321
• 6. Structure
• Structural and communicative hierarchies in participial adjuncts
  Rudolf Růžička | p. 337
• Writing down the speech of very small children by English graphemes
  Josef Vachek | p. 347
• Tough constructions of Japanese and English in HPSG framework
  Akira Ikeya | p. 353
• On quantification in grammar and semantics
  Marie Těšitelová | p. 369
• Fitting languages into a model of language modelled on language
  Olga Mišeska Tomić | p. 379
• Some peculiarities of Czech relational adjectives
  Charles E. Townsend | p. 393
• Afterword
• Eva Hajičová — An appreciation
  Barbara H. Partee | p. 407
• Name Index | p. 419
• Subject Index | p. 423

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