TY - BOOK ID - 149330 TI - Topic-focus articulation, tripartite structures and semantic content AU - Hajicová, Eva AU - Sgall, Petr PY - 1998 VL - 71 SN - 0792352890 9048151163 9401590125 9780792352891 PB - Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Kluwer academic publishers DB - UniCat KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Focus (Linguistique) KW - Focus (Taalwetenschap) KW - Semantics KW - Semantiek KW - Sémantique KW - Sémasiologie KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Topic and comment KW - Semantics. KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Language and languages KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) KW - Predicate and subject (Grammar) KW - Subject and predicate (Grammar) KW - Theme and rheme KW - Topic and comment (Grammar) KW - Discourse analysis KW - Topic and comment. KW - Subject and predicate KW - Syntax KW - Focus (Linguistics). KW - Grammar [Comparative and general ] KW - Linguistics. KW - Language and languages—Philosophy. KW - Computational linguistics. KW - Comparative linguistics. KW - Theoretical Linguistics. KW - Philosophy of Language. KW - Computational Linguistics. KW - Comparative Linguistics. KW - Comparative philology KW - Philology, Comparative KW - Historical linguistics KW - Automatic language processing KW - Language data processing KW - Linguistics KW - Natural language processing (Linguistics) KW - Applied linguistics KW - Cross-language information retrieval KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Multilingual computing KW - Linguistic science KW - Science of language KW - Data processing KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149330 AB - 1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within the formal semantics tradition represented by Partee (BHP in the sequel), focus has much more recently become an area of concerted investigation, but a number of the semantic phenomena to which focus is relevant have been extensively investi gated and given explicit compositional semantic-analyses. The emergence of 'tripartite structures' (see Chapter 2) in formal semantics and the partial simi larities that can be readily observed between some aspects of tripartite structures and some aspects of Praguian topic-focus articulation have led us to expect that a closer investigation of the similarities and differences in these different theoretical constructs would be a rewarding undertaking with mutual benefits for the further development of our respective theories and potential benefit for the study of semantic effects of focus in other theories as well. ER -