Ferdinand de Saussure and the Prague school of Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. I: Fundamental Issues
5. What has the Prague School Given to Linguistics and to Science? 3
6. Ferdinand de Saussure and the Prague school of Linguistics 59
7. Prague linguistics and Quantitative Analysis 73
8. II: Sentence Structure
9. On Getting a Head 85
10. More Remarks on Control 101
11. Focusing on the Negative 121
12. The Semantics of German und 157
13. Le désignant discontinu 177
14. III: Phonology and Graphemics
15. Syllable as a Microfield in Functional Sentence Perspective 193
16. Determinacy form as the Essence of Language 205
17. Marked and Unmarked Punctuation Signs in English 235
18. IV: Lexicon
19. Iconicity in the Lexicon 251
20. La typologie lexicale — une typologie partielle 285
21. V: Literature and Discourse
22. Four Dimensions of the Literary Work 295
23. The Language of Imaginary Projections 307
24. The Structure of the semantic Context of TIME in Various text Types 319
25. On Implicitness in Language and Discourse 331