Language and Function

1. Preface; 2. Jan Firbas - An outstanding personality of European linguistics (by Svoboda, Ales); 3. Bibliography of the publications of Professor Jan Firbas, PhDr, DrSc, Dr.h.c. (Leeds, United Kingdom; Leuven, Belgium; Turku, Finland) (by Golkova, Eva); 4. 'There's no such thing as syntax - and it's a good thing, too...' (by Beaugrande, Robert de); 5. Old English pa revisited (by Breivik, Leiv Egil); 6. The double basis of the Prague functional approach: Mathesius and Jakobson (by Danes, Frantisek); 7. FSP and the grammar of the weather in English (by Davidse, Kristin); 8. Theme, information and cohesion (by Davies, Martin); 9. Negotiation topic coherence through talk-in-action (by Downing, Angela); 10. Constancy of syntactic function across languages (by Duskova, Libuse); 11. A consideration of the thematiser 'wa' in Japanese (by Fukuda, Kazuo); 12. The semantic fields Unterhaltung and entertainment in their paradigmatic and syntagmatic interrelations (by Glaser, Rosemarie); 13. Topic-focus articulation in the Czech national corpus (by Hajicova, Eva); 14. The functions and meanings of word-formations (with reference to modern English) (by Hansen, Klaus); 15. Observational linguistics and semiotics (by Lipka, Leonhard); 16. Evidentiality and the construction of writer stance in native and non-native texts (by Neff, JoAnne); 17. Functional sentence perspective and translation (by Newmark, Peter); 18. Linguistics across borders: The EIL phenomenon (by Nickel, Gerhard); 19. Towards a history of linguistic ideas. A note on Jan Firbas and the Prague School (by Qian, Jun); 20. Some sociolinguistic considerations on Old English phonology (by Schendl, Herbert); 21. From functional sentence perspective to topic-focus articulation (by Sgall, Petr); 22. -ende/-ing in the history of English (by Swan, Toril); 23. Old Javanese word structure (by Uhlenbeck, Eugenius M.); 24. On the associative anaphor in fairy tales (by Uhlirova, Ludmila); 25. Lexical rules in Robert Baker's "reflections on the English language" (by Vorlat, Emma)