TY - BOOK AU - Kamio,Akio AU - Takami,Ken'ichi AU - Kuno,Susumu TI - Function and structure, in honor of Susumu Kuno T2 - Pragmatics & beyond, SN - 9789027299079 AV - P147.K86 F86 1998eb U1 - 410/.1/8 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co. KW - Kuno, Susumu, KW - Functionalism (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Structural linguistics KW - Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) KW - Grammaire comparée et générale KW - Linguistique structurale KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Language KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Functionele taalkunde KW - gtt KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Preface; A Comparison of Postposed Subjects in English and Italian; A Functional Constraint on Extraposition from NP; The Speech Act Empathy Hierarchy and Russian Possessives; Aspects of Hypothetical Meaning in Japanese Conditionals; A Context-Based Account of English Passives with Indefinite Subjects; Observations on Three Anaphoric Expressions in Japanese; Qualification and Point of View; Towards a Theory of Desirability in Conditional Reasoning; Relative Tense and Absolute Tense in Adverbial Adjuncts in JapaneseSpecific NP in Scope; Some Referential Properties of English It and That; The Role of Empathy in Sentence Production; Personal Pronoun Shift in Japanese: A Case Study in Lexical Change and Point of View; Subject Index; Name Index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES N2 - This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and theory-oriented approach and linked it with the American formalist approach of generative grammar.His approach is thus a unique combination of functionalism and formalism that constantly urges the promotion of interactions between these two major trends in linguistics. The papers in this collection coherently dea UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253499 ER -