Language and Function

To the memory of Jan Firbas

Editor

Josef Hladký

| Masaryk University

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027215581 (Eur) | EUR 120.00

ISBN 9781588113030 (USA) | USD 180.00

e-Book –

ISBN 9789027296733 | EUR 120.00 | USD 180.00

The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention of Firbas, contained in his analysis of functional sentence perspective and of many other aspects of sentence and discourse.

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 49] 2003. x, 336 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.49

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Jan Firbas — An outstanding personality of European linguistics Aleš Svoboda	1–7
Bibliography of the publications of Professor Jan Firbas, PhDr, DrSc, Dr.h.c. (Leeds, United Kingdom; Leuven, Belgium; Turku, Finland) Eva Golková	9–22
‘There’s no such thing as syntax — and it’s a good thing, too…’ Robert de Beaugrande	23–37
Old English þa revisited Leiv Egil Breivik	39–55
The double basis of the Prague functional approach: Mathesius and Jakobson Frantisek Danes	57–69
FSP and the grammar of the weather in English Kristin Davidse and Anneke Noppen	71–88
Theme, information and cohesion Martin Davies	89–109
Negotiation topic coherence through talk-in-action Angela Downing	119–126
Constancy of syntactic function across languages Libuše Dušková	127–145
A consideration of the thematiser ‘wa’ in Japanese Kazuo Fukuda	147–160
The semantic fields Unterhaltung and entertainment in their paradigmatic and syntagmatic interrelations Rosemarie Gläser	161–184
Topic-focus articulation in the Czech national corpus Eva Hajičová	185–194
The functions and meanings of word-formations (with reference to modern English) Klaus Hansen	195–210
Observational linguistics and semiotics Leonhard Lipka	211–222
Evidentiality and the construction of writer stance in native and non-native texts JoAnne Neff, Emma Dafouz, Mercedes Díez Prados, Francisco Martinez, Rosa Prieto and Juan-Pedro Rica-Peromingo	223–235
Functional sentence perspective and translation Peter Newmark	237–245
Linguistics across borders: The EIL phenomenon Gerhard Nickel	247–254
Towards a history of linguistic ideas. A note on Jan Firbas and the Prague School Jun Qian	255–268
Some sociolinguistic considerations on Old English phonology Herbert Schendl	269–278
From functional sentence perspective to topic-focus articulation Petr Sgall	279–287
-ende/-ing in the history of English Toril Swan	289–305
Old Javanese word structure Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck	307–314
On the associative anaphor in fairy tales Ludmila Uhlírová	315–323
Lexical rules in Robert Baker’s “reflections on the English language” Emma Vorlat	325–336

Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002027700 | Marc record