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This marks the outcome of a collaborative effort by leading scholars of two linguistic traditions, combining formal and functional approaches to semantics. The authors jointly explore the relationship between theories of topic-focus structure, principally as developed in the Prague School, and the tripartite structure approach to quantification and other focus-sensitive constructions which has emerged from work in formal semantics by Heim, Kamp, Rooth, Partee, Von Finkel, Krifka, andothers. The text provides an introduction to the most relevant aspects of both traditions, then proceeds through a dialogue between the two approaches, culminating in a synthesis in which a set of jointly developed hypotheses are examined and applied to a broad range of examples. The book should be of interest to researchers and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, comparative English-Slavic structure, semantic typology, computational linguistics, and general linguistics theory.

Syntax-Semantics Interface is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajičová between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generative description proposed by Petr Sgall in the early 1960s and developed since. The book reflects Hajičová’s research contributions to four main domains: the specification of underlying (deep) sentence structure (analyzed in terms of dependency relations); the information structure of the sentence (topic-focus articulation) and its relation to the specification of presupposition and negation and to other related phenomena; the building of a scheme for an annotated corpus of Czech to serve, among other things, in the verification of theoretical linguistic claims; and some fundamental aspects of discourse structure, namely the concept of the hierarchy of elements in the stock of knowledge shared by speaker and hearer. Through new introductory statements, Hajičová also compares her original findings with current state-of-the-art of linguistic theory at home and abroad.

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Tesitelova; M. Ludvikova; H. Confortiova; Ludmila Uhlirova; I. Nebeska; Jan Kralik; J. Kramsky; J. Sabol; J. Stepan. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M. Novotny; Pavel Materna; Eva Hajicova, Petr Sgall & Petr Pitha; Jarmila Panevova & Petr Sgall.

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Tesitelova; Ludmila Uhlirova; I. Nebeska; M. Ludvikova; H. Confortiova; Marie Tesitelova , J. Petr & Jan Kralik; J. Stepan; J. Kramsky; J. Duskova; J. Sabol. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M. Novotny; L. Nebesky; Petr Sgall; Eva Hajicova, Petr Sgall & J. Vrbova; Jarmila Panevova; Petr Pitha; Eva Buranova; Svatava Machova; Eva Hajicova, M. Hnatkova & P. Jirku; Zdenek Kirschner; Pavel Materna.

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Tesitelova; M. Ludvikova; H. Confortiova; Ludmila Uhlirova; I. Nebeska; Jan Kralik; J. Kramsky; L. Klimes; J. Stepan; Z. Liskova. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M. Novotny; L. Nebesky; Petr Sgall; Eva Hajicova; Jarmila Panevova; Petr Pitha; J. Sabol; Zdenek Kirschner; P. Jirku & Petr Sgall; Eva Buranova & Svatava Machova; Pavel Materna.

This marks the outcome of an unusual collaborative effort by leading scholars of two distinguished linguistic traditions, combining formal and functional approaches to semantics. Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall are the leaders of the most 'formal' branch of the contemporary functional Prague School tradition, while Barbara H. Partee is one of the founders of formal semantics and one of its leading contributors. In this work the authors jointly explore the relationship between theories of topic-focus structure, principally as developed in the Prague School, and the tripartite structure approach to quantification and other focus-sensitive constructions which has emerged from work in formal semantics by Heim, Kamp, Rooth, Partee, Von Finkel, Krifka, and others. The book provides a brief introduction to the most relevant aspects of both traditions, then proceeds through a dialogue between the two approaches, culminating in a synthesis in which a set of jointly developed hypotheses are examined and applied to a broad range of examples.The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, comparative English-Slavic structure, semantic typology, computational linguistics, and general linguistics theory.

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.