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This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity - or case grammar, to use the popular term - has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged relation to states of affairs in the real world. Using a systemic functional perspective, the ten papers in this volume make a contribution to this scholarship by focusing on the transitivity patterns in language as the expression of the experiential metafunction. Through a study of different languages - E

Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Metalanguage. --- Second-order language --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Structural linguistics --- Philology

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Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930's. In the present volume, nine Czech linguists and eight authors from abroad present new ideas in various domains from basic properties of the system of language to discourse types and to history of linguistics in the 20th century. Fundamental issues of structural linguistics are discussed by C.H. van Schooneveld and

Structural linguistics. --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Prazsky linguisticky krouzek. --- Prague Linguistic Circle --- Linguistic Circle, Prague --- Linguistický kroužek (Prague, Czechoslovakia) --- Cercle linguistique, Prague --- C.L.P. (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prazhskiĭ lingvisticheskiĭ kruzhok --- CLP (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prague School --- Prague (Czechoslovakia). --- Circolo linguistico di Praga --- Scuola di Praga --- Pražský linguistický kroužek.