On Understanding and Believing

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. 1 Quantitative Linguistics
4. Some Quantitative Characteristics of Non-Fiction Texts in Present-Day Czech 9
5. Quantitative Aspects of Verb Categories (Based on Present-Day Czech Non-Fiction Texts) 19
6. On Prepositions in Non-Fiction Style 31
7. Simple Sentence Structure from the Quantitative Point of View (Based on Present-Day Czech Non-Fiction Texts) 43
8. Compound/Complex Sentences in Non-Fiction Texts 53
9. Some Notes on the Frequency 67
10. A Stylostatistical Examination of Conjunctions in Modern English 81
11. On Some Quantitative Aspects of the Sentences in Palacký's Works 93
12. On Some Aspects of Syntactic Complexity in Fiction Style 101
13. Intersentential Connections in Journalistic Text 111
14. 2 Algebraic Linguistics
15. On an Effective Construction of a Grammar Generating a Given Language 123
16. A Note on Structural Homonymy and Word Order 133
17. Too Many Paradigms? 137
18. Remarks on the Meanings of Cases 149
19. O svjazi meždu formoj i funkcijej (otnošenije reprezentacii) 159
20. Adnominal Genitive in the Functional Generative Description of Czech 167
21. The Interrelation between a Phone, a Phoneme and a Morphophoneme 173
22. MOSAIC 179
23. A Question Answering System Based on Natural Language Inferencing 187
24. On the Linguistic Aspects of a Query System 199
25. On Understanding and Believing 211