CONTRIBUTIONS TO FUNCTIONAL SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, AND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- INTRODUCTION -- Notes -- Table of contents -- (A) GENERAL THEORETICAL ISSUES -- On the Notion "Type of Language" -- Notes -- Syntax, Meaning, and Reference -- Notes -- Optional Participants in a Semantic Interpretation (Arity of Predicates and Case Frames of Verbs) -- Notes -- A Dependency Base for a Linguistic Description -- Notes -- On Presupposition and Allegation -- Notes -- Remarks on Text, Language and Communication -- Notes -- Appendix :A Note on Text and Reference -- (B) EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- Valency (Case) Frames of Verbs -- Notes -- Appendix I List of free modifications -- Appendix II Verbal Frames -- Topic and Focus -- Notes -- Sentences with General Actor -- Notes -- (C) SPECIFIC ISSUES OF GRAMMAR -- Case Frames of Nouns -- On the Syntax of Some Types of Pronouns in Czech -- Note -- Passive Voice in the Generative Description of Czech -- Notes -- Verbal Prefixation from the Viewpoint of Valency -- Notes -- (D) TOWARDS SYSTEMS OF AUTOMATIC COMPREHENSION -- Text-and-Inference Based Answering of Questions -- Notes -- Logical and Linguistic Aspects of Computer-Based Inference Processes -- On a Dependency Analysis of English for Automatic Translation -- REFERENCES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.