Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff, Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall
The aim of this volume is to witness how the activities of the Prague School have continued to bring important new insights and discussions between the 1940s and the present time. Contributions are included which have escaped attention on an international scale because they were published in Czech;… read more
The main criteria used for the valency of verbs in the framework of Functional Generative Description (FGD) are introduced, leading to the recognition of three classes of verbal modifications : inner participants (IPs), obligatory free modifications (FMs), and quasivalency modifiers (QMs). The… read more
The present paper contributes to the long-term linguistic discussion on the boundaries between grammar and lexicon by analyzing four related issues from Czech. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework of Functional Generative Description (FGD), which has been elaborated in Prague since… read more