In:Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas
Edited by Josef Hladký
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 49] 2003
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 17 April 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.49.toc
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Table of contents
Prefaceix
Jan Firbas — An outstanding personality of European linguistics
Bibliography of the publications of Professor Jan Firbas, PhDr, DrSc, Dr.h.c. (Leeds, United Kingdom; Leuven, Belgium; Turku, Finland)
‘There’s no such thing as syntax — and it’s a good thing, too…’
Old English þa revisited
The double basis of the Prague functional approach: Mathesius and Jakobson
FSP and the grammar of the weather in English
Theme, information and cohesion
Negotiation topic coherence through talk-in-action
Constancy of syntactic function across languages
A consideration of the thematiser ‘wa’ in Japanese
The semantic fields Unterhaltung and entertainment in their paradigmatic and syntagmatic
interrelations
Topic-focus articulation in the Czech national corpus
The functions and meanings of word-formations (with reference to modern English)
Observational linguistics and semiotics
Evidentiality and the construction of writer stance in native and non-native texts
Functional sentence perspective and translation
Linguistics across borders: The EIL phenomenon
Towards a history of linguistic ideas. A note on Jan Firbas and the Prague School
Some sociolinguistic considerations on Old English phonology
From functional sentence perspective to topic-focus articulation
-ende/-ing in the history of English
Old Javanese word structure
On the associative anaphor in fairy tales
Lexical rules in Robert Baker’s “reflections on the English language”
