Syntax-Semantics Interface

✍ Scribed by Eva Hajičová

• Publisher: Karolinum Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE is a collection of selected studies written by Eva Hajičová and published between the years 1973 and 2014. The contributions are based on the theoretical framework of the Functional Generative Description as proposed by Petr Sgall in early sixties and developed further by him and his followers since then. Thematically, the volume reflects the author's research contributions to four main domains: (i) the specification of the underlying (deep) sentence structure (analyzed in terms of dependency relations), (ii) the information structure of the sentence (topic-focus articulation) and its relation to the specification of presupposition and negation and to other related phenomena, (iii) building of a scheme of annotated corpus of Czech to serve among other things for verification of linguistic theoretical claims, and (iv) some fundamental aspects of discourse structure, namely the notion of the hiearachy of elements in the stock of knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer. All the papers except for one have been originally published in English and in they pay due respect to a comparison of the author's original findings with the currrent state-of-the-art of linguistic theory at home and abroad.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Bibliographical Notes
1. Underlying Syntactic Structure
Foreword
Agentive or Actor/Bearer?
Remarks on the Meanings of Cases
2. Topic-Focus Articulation and Related Issues
Foreword
Vilém Mathesius and Functional Sentence Perspective, and Beyond
Negation and Topic vs. Comment
On Pressupposition and Allegation
Questions on Sentence Prosody Linguists Have Always Wanted to Ask
Surface and Underlying Word Order
The Ordering of Valency Slots from a Communicative Point of View
How Many Topics/Foci?
Rhematizers Revisited
3. Theoretical Description Reflected in Corpus Annotation
Foreword
Theoretical Description of Language as a Basis of Corpus Annotation: The Case of Prague Dependency Treebank
What We Have Learned from Complex Annotation of Topic-focus Articulation in a Large Czech Corpus
4. Beyond the Sentence Boundary
Foreword
Focussing – A Meeting Point of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
Contextual Boundness and Discourse Patterns Revisited
5. Comparison with Other Approaches
Foreword
Functional Sentence Perspective and the Latest Developments in Transformational Grammar
A Note on the Order of Constituents in Relation to the Principles of GB theory
Possibilities and Limits of Optimality in Topic-Focus Articulation
The Position of TFA (Information Structure) in a Dependency Based Description of Language
Appendix: A Glimpse Back at Historical Sources
Foreword
Some Experience with the Use of Punched-card Machines for Linguistic Analysis
A Functional Generative Description (Background and Framework)
Abstrakt
Abstract
Bibliography