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Language and Function
To the memory of Jan Firbas
Editor
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
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. ix–x
- Jan Firbas — An outstanding personality of European linguisticsAleš Svoboda | pp. 1–7
- Bibliography of the publications of Professor Jan Firbas, PhDr, DrSc, Dr.h.c. (Leeds, United Kingdom; Leuven, Belgium; Turku, Finland)Eva Golková | pp. 9–22
- ‘There’s no such thing as syntax — and it’s a good thing, too…’Robert de Beaugrande | pp. 23–37
- Old English þa revisitedLeiv Egil Breivik | pp. 39–55
- The double basis of the Prague functional approach: Mathesius and JakobsonFrantisek Danes | pp. 57–69
- FSP and the grammar of the weather in EnglishKristin Davidse and Anneke Noppen | pp. 71–88
- Theme, information and cohesionMartin Davies | pp. 89–109
- Negotiation topic coherence through talk-in-actionAngela Downing | pp. 119–126
- Constancy of syntactic function across languagesLibuše Dušková | pp. 127–145
- A consideration of the thematiser ‘wa’ in JapaneseKazuo Fukuda | pp. 147–160
- The semantic fields Unterhaltung and entertainment in their paradigmatic and syntagmatic interrelationsRosemarie Gläser | pp. 161–184
- Topic-focus articulation in the Czech national corpusEva Hajičová | pp. 185–194
- The functions and meanings of word-formations (with reference to modern English)Klaus Hansen | pp. 195–210
- Observational linguistics and semioticsLeonhard Lipka | pp. 211–222
- Evidentiality and the construction of writer stance in native and non-native textsJoAnne Neff, Emma Dafouz, Mercedes Díez Prados, Francisco Martinez, Rosa Prieto and Juan-Pedro Rica-Peromingo | pp. 223–235
- Functional sentence perspective and translationPeter Newmark | pp. 237–245
- Linguistics across borders: The EIL phenomenonGerhard Nickel | pp. 247–254
- Towards a history of linguistic ideas. A note on Jan Firbas and the Prague SchoolJun Qian | pp. 255–268
- Some sociolinguistic considerations on Old English phonologyHerbert Schendl | pp. 269–278
- From functional sentence perspective to topic-focus articulationPetr Sgall | pp. 279–287
- -ende/-ing in the history of EnglishToril Swan | pp. 289–305
- Old Javanese word structureEugenius M. Uhlenbeck | pp. 307–314
- On the associative anaphor in fairy talesLudmila Uhlírová | pp. 315–323
- Lexical rules in Robert Baker’s “reflections on the English language”Emma Vorlat | pp. 325–336