Studies in Text Grammar

If we consider how theoretical operations belonging to the methodological inventory of linguistics are carried out (i. e. the way linguistic theories are set up), three main criteria suggest themselves for classifying them: (1) Both, nature and type of the aims of the scientific knowledge applied wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Petöfi, J.S. (Editor), Rieser, Hannes (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1973, 1973
Edition:1st ed. 1973
Series:Foundations of Language Supplementary Series
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Overview
  • Text Grammar and Text Logic
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Hypothetic Form of Text Grammar
  • 3. Formal Logic and Natural Logic
  • 4. Text Logic
  • 5. Summary
  • On Various Solutions of the Problem of Presuppositions
  • Pragmatic Implication
  • 1. Elements of a Pragmatic Language
  • 2. Truth Conditions for Formulas with Series of Epistemic Operators with Alternating Subscripts
  • 3. Pragmatic Implication
  • 4. Other Types of Pragmatic Implications
  • 5. Summary
  • Time and Text: Towards an Adequate Heuristics
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Note on the ‘Meta-Theoretical Paradigm’
  • 3. Brief Sketch of a Model of Language Functioning
  • 4. Time and Text
  • 5. Concluding Remarks
  • Towards an Empirically Motivated Grammatical Theory of Verbal Texts
  • I. Sentence Grammars and Text Grammars
  • II. A ‘Not Fixed Linearity Text Grammar’. The Present Stage of its Development
  • Sentence Grammar, Text Grammar, and the Evaluation Problem. Some Remarks Concerning the Theoretical Foundation and the Possible Application of Text Grammars
  • 1. Some Remarks on the Meta-Theoretical Postulates and Conventions to Be Used
  • 2. Some Informal Remarks on the Structure of