Grammatical Categories and Their Formal Patterns

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. Part I. History of Ideas
5. Prague School Linguistics: Units in Diversity 3
6. The Impact of Czech and Russian Biology on the Linguistic Thoughts of the Prague Linguistic Circle 15
7. Types of Languages and Probabilistic Implication Laws 25
8. Part II. Phonology
9. Are the Phonological Distinctive Features Ordered? 37
10. Developmental and Clinical Phonology: The Prague School and Beyond 53
11. Part III. Morphology
12. Grammatical Categories and Their Formal Patterns 71
13. Nominal and Temporal Semantic Structure 91
14. In the Beginning Was the Verb: Markedness in Grammatical Categories 109
15. Aspect, Contexte, Distribution 125
16. What is Natural in Natural Morphology (NM)? 135
17. Determination in German and Russian 145
18. Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-européen (première partie) 165
19. Part IV. Sentence Structure
20. Autosemantic Parts of Speech in Czech 195
21. Inherently Thematic or Rhematic Units of Language 211
22. On the Notion of Topic 225
23. The Theory of Functional Sentence Perspective as a Reflection of an Effort Towards a Means-Ends Model of Language 237
24. Basic Distribution of Communicative Dynamism vs. Nonlinear Indication of Functional Sentence Perspective 249
25. Part V. Language in Society
26. Anregungen des Prager linguistischen Zirkels zur Verwissenschaftlichung der Stilistik 265
27. Sociolinguistics and the Prague School 275
28. Part VI. Resounding of Ideas
29. Roman Jakobson’s Intellectual Influence in America 289
30. Dichotomies in the Brain - Jakobsonian and Modern 303