THE SYNTAX OF SENTENCE AND TEXT

A Festschrift for František Daneš














Table of Contents





Acknowledgements 

Preface

Selected Bibliography of the Publications of
Professor František Daneš, PhDr., DrSc.



I. PRAGUE SCHOOL FUNCTIONALISM


Robert de Beaugrande
Functionalism versus Formalism in East and West


Nils Erik Enkvist
Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuz 


Paul L. Garvin
Karl Bühler’s Field Theory in the Light
of the Current Interest in Pragmatics 


Josef Vachek
Vilém Mathesius as One of the Forerunners
of Modern Textological Research



II. FUNCTIONAL SENTENCE PERSPECTIVE AND THEMATIC PROGRESSIONS


Martin Davies
“I’m Sorry, I’ll Read that Again”:
Information Structure in Writing


Wolfgang U. Dressler
Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model
of Natural Textlinguistics 


Anna Duszak
On Thematic Configurations in Texts:
Orientation and goals 


Jan Firbas
Substantiating Daneš’s View of Givenness
as a Graded Phenomenon


Roland Harweg
Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates
in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals?


Philip A. Luelsdorff
Discourse as Determinacy


János Sándor Petöfi
Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition:
The Topic-Comment Structure of Initial Text Sentences
from a Semiotic Textological Point of View


Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck
Functional Sentence Perspective
in Modern and Old Javanese



III. TEXT AND DISCOURSE


Maria-Elisabeth Conte
Discontinuity in Texts 


Světla Čmejrková
Voices of Intention and Interpretation:
On “The Czech Dreambook” by Ludvík Vaculík 


Jana Hoffmannová
On the Means of Expressing Vaguenes and Uncertainty
in Czech Discourse


Jiří Kraus
Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles
of a Text Structure


Olga Müllerová
On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and
Written Text


Sorin Stati
‘Passive’ Moves in Argumentation


Ludmila Uhlířová
E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium
and its Effects upon the Message


Eija Ventola
From Syntax to Text:
Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L2



IV. GRAMMAR AND SEMANTICS


Alexandr Bondarko
Notes on the Functions of Grammatical Units
in Language System and in Discourse


Andrzej Bogusławski
Sentential Complementation and Truth


Hansjakob Seiler
Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual
Features in Oral Narrative Prose


František Štícha
Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar


Miroslav Komárek
On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German
(jenž – který, der – welcher)


Eva Macháčková
Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech
(Analytical Predicates)


Igor Němec
Potential Valency Components from the Point of View
of Historical Lexicography


Subject Index
9

11


17





29


43



59



67






75



89



105



119



131


147




165



179





195



205



219



237



247


259



273



283






307


317



333


341



359



365



375


383