Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Introduction 5
3. Contents 15
4. (A) General theoretical issues
5. On the notion “type of language” 19
6. Syntax, meaning, and reference 39
7. Optional participants in a semantic interpretation (Arity of predicates and case frames of verbs) 51
8. A dependency base for a linguistic description 63
9. On presupposition and allegation 99
10. Remarks on text, language and communication 123
11. (B) Empirical questions of syntax and semantics
12. Valency (case) frames of verbs 147
13. Topic, and focus 189
14. Sentences with general actor 203
15. (C) Specific issues of grammar
16. Case frames of nouns 225
17. On the syntax of some types of pronouns in Czech 239
18. Passive voice in the generative description of Czech 259
19. Verbal prefixation from the viewpoint of valency 275
20. (D) Towards systems of automatic comprehension
21. Text-and-inference based answering of questions 291
22. Logical and linguistic aspects of computer-based inference processes 321
23. On a dependency analysis of English for automatic translation 335
24. Editorial note 359
25. References 361
26. List of abbreviations 379