Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Section I: The Prague tradition in retrospect
5. Prolegomena to the history of the Prague School of Linguistics 3
6. Anton Marty’s philosophy of language 83
7. Die Typologie des Ungarischen 101
8. Section II: Grammar
9. Theoretical description of language as a basis of corpus annotation 111
10. “Conditionals” in Hebrew and English: same or different? 129
11. Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-européen 143
12. Section III: Topic–Focus articulation
13. The Russian genitive of negation in existential sentences 185
14. Synonymy vs. differentiation of variant syntactic realizations of FSP functions 251
15. Topic–Focus articulation as generalized quantification 263
16. Information structure and the partition of sentence meaning 275
17. Section IV: General views
18. Freedom of language 309
19. The natural order of cognitive events 331
20. Section V: Poetics
21. The principle of free verse 365