DISCOURSE AND MEANING PAPERS IN HONOR OF EVA HAJICOVÁ -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Tabula gratulatoria -- 1. FOREWORD -- Although her life with us has not been easy -- 2. DISCOURSE -- Non-propositional encoding of discourse categories -- Introduction -- 1. Metinformation -- 2. Interpersonal factors -- 3. Point of view -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The content and form of illocutionary acts -- References -- The sublanguage paradigm: A comprehensive theory of linguistic activity -- Basic frame -- Some characteristics of sublanguages -- The most significant characteristic of sublanguages -- Neural background -- Some historical notes and a framework -- Multiplicity of sublanguage phenomena -- Sublanguage investigations -- The sublanguage paradigm and multilingualism -- References -- Knowledge negotiation -- Introduction -- 1. Knowledge transmission -- 2. Knowledge transmission situations -- 3. Negotiated knowledge -- 4. Determinacy negotiation and determinacy textualization -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 3. MEANING -- Allegation and local accommodation -- Introduction -- 1. Hajičová's and Heim's proposals -- 2. The relation between allegation and local accommodation -- 3. Recursive structure -- Notes -- References -- Remarks on substance, function and form -- 1. Linguistic form and function should be systematically related to biological substance in the brain -- 2. The clarification of the issues -- 3. The specifics of the communicatively functional approaches -- References -- Three kinds of using the identity sign -- 1. Apparatus -- a. Constructions -- b. Ramified hierarchy of types -- c. Epistemic base -- d. Abbreviations -- e. Intensions -- 2. Concept -- 3. Identities -- 4. Paradox of analysis resolved -- 5. Concluding remark -- References -- On what is impossible entailing everything.

References -- Some remarks on homonymy and polysemy -- Notes -- References -- The meaning of Meaning in the Prague School -- Introduction -- Phonology as the pilot discipline in the PLC -- Roman Jakobsen's theory of the semantic invariants (invariant meanings) -- S. Karcevskij's Système du verbe russe (1927) -- Back to Jakobson 's invariant meanings -- Jakobson and Mathesius -- The semiotic turn -- Jakobson's invariants on the American soil -- Bohumil Trnka's conception of meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Your metaphor or mine: Belief ascription and metaphor interpretation -- 1. ViewGen: The basic belief engine -- 2. Metaphor: Shifting the belief engine to a higher gear -- 3. Metaphorical scope -- 4. Embedded metaphor ascription -- 5. Other work: Abduction is different -- 6. Some further work -- Acknowledgements -- References: -- On real mother, real man and similar expressions -- Notes -- References -- 4 . FOCUS -- The focus and scope of only -- 1. Placement of only as a test for constituent structure -- 2. Placement of only in relation to its scope -- 3. only and NPs -- Notes -- References -- Grammatical implementation of the dominance of subject and focus -- Abstract and Introduction -- Reflexes of the subject -- Prolog implementations -- Reflexes of the focus -- Relative clauses -- Other subordinate clauses -- Coordination and text -- Conclusion -- References -- A note on rhematic disagreements in early child language -- Notes -- References -- Mobility of clause constituents and functional sentence perspective -- Notes -- References -- Topic and focus in a formal framework -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic concepts of the Prague approach -- 3. Formal means -- 4. Topic = subject and focus = predicate? -- 5. Quantifier scope -- 6. Focus = exhaustive listing? -- 7. Falsity vs. inappropriateness -- 8. Negation -- 9, Dynamic semantics.

10. The tripartite structure -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Wh-extraction and the topic-focus articulation of the sentence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. New claims about wh-extractions -- 2.1. General extractability -- 2.2. Subcategorization of extracted elements with respect to the Topic-Focus Articulation -- 2.3. Clusters of extracted elements -- 2.4. Non-extracted wh-elements -- 2.5. Acceptability -- 2.6. The structure of the Focus of clauses with wh-elements -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Theme-rheme structure: Its exponents and its semantic interpretation -- 1. Li-structure -- 2. TR-structure -- 3. Diversity of semantic interpretations of the TR-structure components -- 4. TR-structure of sentences expressing propositional attitudes -- References -- 5. TRANSLATION -- Some rationales and methodologies for example based machine translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Example-based approach vs. semantic-marker approach -- 3. A problem in choosing a proper case frame -- 4. Selection of a proper translation word -- 5. A framework for EBMT -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Les belles infidèles: Fidelity as a criterion of good translation -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Preference mechanisms of the Multra machine translation system -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An example -- 3. Preferences among source ambiguities -- 4. Ordering lexical translation alternatives -- 5. Ordering generation alternatives -- 6. The role of discourse and the future -- Notes -- References -- 6. STRUCTURE -- Structural and communicative hierarchies in participial adjuncts -- 1. Structural background -- 2. Relatedness to communicative variability -- 2.1. Structural hierarchy (a). -- 2.2. Structural Hierarchy (b). I repeat example (5): -- 2.3. Structural hierarchy (c). -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Writing down the speech of very small children in English graphemes.

References : -- Tough constructions of Japanese and English in HPSG framework -- Introduction -- 1. Basic framework -- 1.1. TD -- 1.2. CD -- 1.3. DD -- 2. Formalizations -- 3. 'Derivational' relationship -- 4. This book is easy to read -- 5. The difference between English and Japanese -- 5.1. The subjecthood of tough sentences -- 5.2. Other differences -- 6. Summary -- Notes -- References -- On quantification in grammar and semantics -- Conclusions -- References -- Fitting languages into a model of language modelled on language -- Parametric syntax -- Definition of the task and the framework -- The pronominal clitics in Serbo-Croatian -- The pronominal clitics in Macedonian -- The pronominal clitics in Bulgarian -- Conclusion -- References -- Some peculiarities of Czech relational adjectives -- Relationals in -ni -- Relationals in -ny -- References : -- AFTERWORD -- Eva Hajičová - An appreciation -- Selected bibliography of Eva Hajičová -- Name Index -- Subject Index.