Language and Function: To the Memory of Jan FirbasJosef Hladký John Benjamins Publishing, 2003 - 336 pages 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. |
Contents
Bibliography of the publications of | 9 |
Theres no such thing as syntax and its a good thing too | 23 |
Old English pa revisited 39 | 39 |
FSP and the grammar of the weather in English | 71 |
Theme information and cohesion | 89 |
Negotiation topic coherence through talkinaction | 111 |
Constancy of syntactic function across languages | 127 |
A consideration of the thematiser wa in Japanese | 147 |
Topicfocus articulation in the Czech national corpus | 185 |
Observational linguistics and semiotics | 211 |
Functional sentence perspective and translation | 237 |
Towards a history of linguistic ideas | 255 |
Some sociolinguistic considerations on Old English phonology | 269 |
endeing in the history of English | 289 |
Old Javanese word structure | 307 |
Lexical rules in Robert Bakers reflections on the English language | 325 |
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