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Used. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002. Hardcover. Tight and solid book. Pages clean and intact. Mild soiling on covers. Not a library copy. Very faint smudges on text block. 376ppThis volume consists of two parts, the first of which (Section 1) brings three contributions connected with the classical period of the Prague School; by J. Vachek, O. Leska, and V. Skalicka. The main body of the volume contains papers delivered at the conference "Function, Form, and Meaning: Bridges and Interfaces," organized in Prague in 1998 on the occasion of the celebrations of the 650th anniversary of Charles University. Section 2 contains contributions devoted to issues of grammar of different languages including a syntactic annotation of a large Czech text corpus, a comparison of Hebrew conditionals with English, etc. Section 3 is focused on topic-focus articulation. Section 4 contains two broader essays on the nature of language and the last Section analyzes the structure of free verse.

As new; "In these masterful short stories, many of which are set against the harsh but spectacular American prairie, Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather captures the sweeping drama of the West and the spirit of its people. Rich with autobiographical elements from the Nebraska of Cather's childhood, these stories convey luminously the conflict between character and environment, and the pioneer virtues of perseverance courage and dignity.