A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis
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A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis

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A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction : On the scientific study of language
  2. 1. Currents of linguistic research
  3. 2. Plan of the present analysis
  4. 3. Encoding
  5. A. Functional onomatology
  6. I. The meaning of the naming unit
  7. 1. The essence and character of the naming unit
  8. 2. Components of the naming unit
  9. II. The form of the naming unit
  10. 1. Simple and descriptive naming units
  11. 2. The word. General considerations
  12. 3. Non-compound words
  13. 4. Compound words
  14. a) Definition of compound words
  15. b) Types of compounds
  16. c) Features of collocations
  17. d) Verbal compounds and collocations in English
  18. 5. Shortening of words and coining of new naming units
  19. III. Classification of naming units
  20. 1. The problem of the parts of speech (word categories)
  21. 2. Formal differences between the word categories in English
  22. 3. The relation between substantives and adjectives in English
  23. 4. The relation between nouns and verbs in English
  24. 5. The relation between adjectives and adverbs in English
  25. IV. Classification within the word categories
  26. 1. Formal classification, aspectual modifications and categorial transitions
  27. 2. Formal classification and aspectual modifications of nouns
  28. a) Gender of nouns
  29. b) Aspectual modification of grammatical number
  30. c) Aspectual modification of definiteness (Uses of the articles)
  31. 3. Categorial transitions of nouns
  32. 4. Formal classification and aspectual modifications of adjectives
  33. 5. Categorial transitions of adjectives
  34. 6. Formal categories and aspectual modifications of verbs
  35. a) Formal categories of the verb
  36. b) Aspectual modifications of the verb
  37. α) General survey
  38. β) Tense
  39. γ) Remarks on the problems of tense in English
  40. δ) Verbal aspect
  41. ε) Mood
  42. 7. Categorial transitions of the verb in English
  43. a) The relation of the action to the subject
  44. b) The relation of the action to the object
  45. α) Subjective and objective verbs
  46. β) Reflexive verbs
  47. B. Functional syntax
  48. I. Definition of the sentence
  49. II. Functional sentence analysis
  50. 1. The basis and the nucleus of a statement
  51. 2. One-element and two-element sentences from the point of view of functional sentence perspective
  52. 3. Functional and formal analysis of the sentence
  53. III. Formal analysis of simple sentences
  54. 1. General remarks
  55. 2. One-element verbless thetic sentences
  56. 3. One-element verbless predicative sentences
  57. 4. Two-element verbless sentences
  58. 5. Apposition
  59. 6. Absolute construction
  60. 7. Verbal sentences
  61. a) General remarks
  62. b) Grammatical person
  63. 8. The function of the subject in English
  64. 9. Predication in English
  65. a) Actional predication from the formal point of view
  66. b) Actional predication from the semantic point of view: active predication
  67. c) Types of passive actional predication
  68. d) Qualifying predication
  69. e) Other types of predication
  70. 10. The object in English
  71. a) General remarks
  72. b) Object of the accusative type
  73. c) Object of the dative type
  74. d) Object of the genitive type
  75. e) Other types of object
  76. 11. The attribute in English
  77. a) Adjectival attribute
  78. b) Substantival attribute
  79. 12. Adverbials in English
  80. a) General remarks
  81. b) Expression of adverbials in English
  82. IV. The English sentence as a whole
  83. 1. Means of complex condensation
  84. a) General remarks
  85. b) English participles
  86. c) The infinitive and the gerund in English
  87. d) Complex constructions
  88. 2. The word order of the English sentence
  89. a) Principles determining the order of words in a language
  90. b) Other problems of English word order
  91. 3. Strengthening and emphasis
  92. 4. Notes on negation
  93. V. Notes on other problems of functional syntax
  94. 1. Compound and complex sentences
  95. 2. The uses of moods and tenses
  96. Notes
  97. Bibliography
  98. Editor’s postscript to the original Czech edition (1961)
  99. Postscript to the English translation (1973)
  100. Index of persons
  101. Index of subjects
  102. Index of words