Research Catalog

Title

Discourse and meaning : papers in honor of Eva Hajičová / edited by Barbara H. Partee, Petr Sgall.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Partee, Barbara Hall.
• Sgall, Petr, 1926-2019.
• Hajičová, Eva.

Description

xiv, 430 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Discourse analysis
• Semantics
• Grammar, Comparative and general
• Translating and interpreting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Although her life with us has not been easy ... / Jarmila Panevova and Petr Sgall -- Non-propositional encoding of discourse categories / Olga T. Yokoyama -- The content and form of illocutionary acts / Jan Horecky -- The sublanguage paradigm: A comprehensive theory of linguistic activity / Bozena Henisz Thompson -- Knowledge negotiation / Philip A. Luelsdorff -- Allegation and local accommodation / Barbara H. Partee -- Remarks on substance, function and form / Helmut Schnelle -- Three kinds of using the identity sign / Pavel Materna -- On what is impossible entailing everything / Andrzej Boguslawski -- Some remarks on homonymy and polysemy / E. M. Uhlenbeck -- The meaning of Meaning in the Prague school / Oldrich Leska -- Your metaphor or mine: Belief ascription and metaphor interpretation / Yorick Wilks, John Barnden and Jin Wang -- On real mother, real man and similar expressions / Milka Ivic -- The focus and scope of only / James D. McCawley --
• Grammatical implementation of the dominance of subject and focus / Bengt Sigurd -- A note on rhematic disagreements in early child language / Wolfgang U. Dressler -- Mobility of clause constituents and functional sentence perspective / Jan Firbas -- Topic and focus in a formal framework / Jaroslav Peregrin -- Wh-extraction and the topic-focus articulation of the sentence / Eva Koktova -- Theme-rheme structure: Its exponents and its semantic interpretation / Elena V. Paducheva -- Some rationales and methodologies for example-based machine translation / Makoto Nagao -- Les belles infideles: Fidelity as a criterion of good translation / Margaret King -- Preference mechanisms of the Multra machine translation system / Anna Sagvall Hein -- Structural and communicative hierarchies in participial adjuncts / Rudolf Ruzicka -- Writing down the speech of very small children by English graphemes / Josef Vachek -- Tough constructions of Japanese and English in HPSG framework / Akira Ikeya --
• On quantification in grammar and semantics / Marie Tesitelova -- Fitting languages into a model of language modelled on language / Olga Miseska Tomic -- Some peculiarities of Czech relational adjectives / Charles E. Townsend -- Eva Hajicova - An appreciation / Barbara H. Partee -- Selected bibliography of Eva Hajicova.

ISBN

1556194994

LCCN

95046465

OCLC

ocm33442651

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries