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Proceedings of LP’94

 edited by

B. Palek

Item Order in Natural Languages

 Prague August 16-18,1994

Charles University Press, 1995

Table of Contents
General Considerations

František Daneš (Czech Academy of Sciences):

 Language is neither all chaos nor all order   1     

Jiři V. Neustupný (Osaka University):

Some issues of ordering in interactive competence  10

Jiří Doskočil (Czech Academy of Sciences) and Karel Kuna (Charles University, Prague):

The language of genetic information   27

Christine Cheepen and James Monaghan (University of Hertfordshire):

 Hierarchy and linearization in the description of objects: Evaluation as a structuring item in explanatory discourse 46

 

Item order: phonemes, syllables, suprasegmentals:

Osamu Fujimura (The Ohio-State University):

The syllable: Its internal structure and role in prosodic organization  53

Kurt Queller (Stanford university and University of Idaho):

Templates and melodies: A typology of ordering constraints in early child phonology  94

Takashi Suzuki (Information-Technology Promotion Association, Japan):

Level ordering in the phonological algebra of flexible categorial grammar  125

Miroslav Ptáček and Přemysl Janota (Charles University, Prague):

The neutral vowel in Czech: Its application in text-to-speech synthesis  132

 

Item order: word-forms in phrases:

Ronald E. Sheffer, Jr. (University of California, San Diego):

Centrality and extrinsicness: Semantic factors involved in noun phrase word order 139     

Ewa Willim (Jagellonian University, Cracow):

 The syntax of noun phrases in Polish: Linearization parameters 166     

Ingrid Piller (Technical University, Dresden):

 Word-order in American car names  190     

Eva Mendieta-Lombardo  (Indiana University, Northwest) and Isabel Molina Martos (Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Madrid) :

 Variations in discourse: Object left-dislocation in Spanish   209     

Jiří Nosek (Charles University, Prague)

 English binomials as a stylistic device  227     

Helena Kurzová (Czech Academy of Sciences):

 Iconic ordering in morphology  231

 

Item order: word-forms in sentences     

Betty Birner (University of Pennsylvania):

 Inference and intonation in English inversion  245

Vladimir Petkevič (Charles University, Prague):

Formal account of the topic and focus articulation within dependency syntax  265     

Ladislav Nebeský (Charles University, Prague):

Four times hierarchy and word order  282     

Pavel Novák (Charles University,Prague):

Linear and non-linear structuring of sentences 296     

Libuse Dušková (Charles University, Prague):

On the language specific vs general nature of syntactic discontinuities 302     

Oldřich Uličný (Charles University, Prague):

Zur Frage der Ordnungsaspekte in der semantischen Satzstruktur  319

Martin Ehala (University of Cambridge):

 Explaining the bipositional head-complement order in adpositional systems 325     

Laura A. Janda (The University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill):

 The ordering of events introduced by Czech “až” and “než”  340     

Bohumil Palek (Charles University, Prague):

 Typology and item ordering  357

 

Item order: text frame     

James Monaghan and Christine Cheepen(University of Hertfordshire):

Items and their order as the basis for a model of textual description  378     

Karel Fiala (Charles University, Prague):

Sentence and discourse: An attempt at re-assessment of the background of utterances and sentences  383     

Jan Šabršula (Ostrava University):

Coreference, diaphoric relations, congruence  403

 

Bohumil Palek (Charles University, Prague):

 Closing remarks 413