Observational linguistics and semiotics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Jan Firbas — An outstanding personality of European linguistics 1
5. Bibliography of the publications of Professor Jan Firbas, PhDr, DrSc, Dr.h.c. (Leeds, United Kingdom; Leuven, Belgium; Turku, Finland) 9
6. ‘There’s no such thing as syntax — and it’s a good thing, too…’ 23
7. Old English þa revisited 39
8. The double basis of the Prague functional approach: Mathesius and Jakobson 57
9. FSP and the grammar of the weather in English 71
10. Theme, information and cohesion 89
11. Negotiation topic coherence through talk-in-action 111
12. Constancy of syntactic function across languages 127
13. A consideration of the thematiser ‘ wa ’ in Japanese 147
14. The semantic fields Unterhaltung and entertainment in their paradigmatic and syntagmatic interrelations 161
15. Topic-focus articulation in the Czech national corpus 185
16. The functions and meanings of word-formations (with reference to modern English) 195
17. Observational linguistics and semiotics 211
18. Evidentiality and the construction of writer stance in native and non-native texts 223
19. Functional sentence perspective and translation 237
20. Linguistics across borders: The EIL phenomenon 247
21. Towards a history of linguistic ideas. A note on Jan Firbas and the Prague School 255
22. Some sociolinguistic considerations on Old English phonology 269
23. From functional sentence perspective to topic-focus articulation 279
24. - ende /- ing in the history of English 289
25. Old Javanese word structure 307
26. On the associative anaphor in fairy tales 315
27. Lexical rules in Robert Baker’s “reflections on the English language” 325