Articles on Functional Sentence Perspective written by Jan Firbas

The following is a list of articles on FSP written by Jan Firbas during his academic career.
The list is based on the data compiled for A Bibliography of Functional Sentence Perspective 1956-2011 (ISBN 978-80-210-7111-7).

The # sign indicates that the item is available in offprint form in the Masaryk University Archive.

Bibliography of articles

1956#    ‘Poznámky k problematice anglického slovního pořádku a hlediska aktuálního členění větného’ [Some notes on the problem of English word order from the point of view of actual sentence analysis], Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A4, pp. 93-107
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/101567
Also republished in English in Volume One of Collected Works.

1957      ‘Some thoughts on the function of word order in Old English and Modern English’, Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A5, pp. 72-100
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100662
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1957#    ‘K otázce nezákladových podmětů v současné angličtině: Příspěvek k teorii aktuálního členění větného’ [On the problem of the non-thematic subjects in contemporary English: A contribution to the theory of functional sentence perspective], Časopis pro moderní filologii 39, pp. 22-42, 165-173.
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1958      ‘Bemerkungen über einen deutschen Beitrag zum Problem des Satzperspektive’ [Notes on a German contribution to the problem of sentence perspective], Philologica Pragensia 1, pp. 49-54.
Also republished in English in Volume One of Collected Works.

1958#    ‘K vyjadřování aktuálního členění v angličtině’ [On expressing functional sentence perspective in English]. In A. Dostál (Ed.): O vědeckém poznání soudobých jazyků, Prague: Nakladatelství ČSAV, pp. 250-252

1959#    ‘More thoughts on the communicative function of the English verb’, Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A7, pp. 74-98.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100244
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1959      ‘Thoughts on the communicative function of the verb in English, German and Czech’, Brno Studies in English 1, pp. 39-65.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/117987
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1961#    ‘On the communicative value of the Modern English finite verb’, Brno Studies in English 3, pp. 79-104.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118003
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1961#    ‘Ještě k postavení příslovečného určení v angličtině a češtině z hlediska aktuálního členění větného’ [Another note on the position of the situational adverbs in English and Czech from the point of view of FSP], Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A9, pp. 153-156.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100593
Also republished in English in Volume One of Collected Works.

1962#    ‘Notes on the function of the sentence in the act of communication. (Marginalia on two important studies in syntax by Anna Granville Hatcher’, Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A10, pp. 133-148.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100190
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1962#    ‘Poznámka k místu funkční perspektivy větné v struktuře jazyka’ [A note on the place of FSP in the structure of language], Otázky slovanské syntaxe 1, pp. 201-203.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/119410
Also republished in English in Volume One of Collected Works.

1962#    ‘Ze srovnávacích studií slovosledných. (K Mathesiovu pojetí anglické slovosledné soustavy ve srovnání se slovoslednou soustavou českou)’ [From comparative word-order studies. (Thoughts on V. Mathesius'' conception of the word-order system in English compared with that in Czech)], Slovo a slovesnost 23, pp. 161-174.
Available online at https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/search/handle/uuid:bbf17856-530d-11e1-1726-001143e3f55c
Also republished in English in Volume One of Collected Works.

1964#    ‘From comparative word-order studies. (Thoughts on V. Mathesius's conception of the word-order system in English compared with that in Czech)’, Brno Studies in English 4, pp. 118-128.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118010
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1964#    ‘On defining the theme in functional sentence analysis’, Travaux linguistiques de Prague 1, pp. 267-280.
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1965#    ‘A note on transition proper in functional sentence analysis’, Philologica Pragensia 8, pp. 170-176.
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1965#    ‘K otázce tzv. východiska výpovědi’ [On the problem of the so-called theme of the sentence], Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A13, pp. 87-96.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100382
Also republished in English in Volume One of Collected Works.

1965      ‘Ke komunikativní funkci anglického, českého a německého slovesa’ [On the communicative function of the verb in English, Czech and German], Prednášky v Krúžku moderných filológov 2, pp. 5-30.

1966#    ‘Non-thematic subjects in contemporary English: A contribution to the problem of central and peripheral phenomena in the system of functional sentence perspective’, Travaux linguistiques de Prague 2, pp. 239-256.
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1967#    ‘It was yesterday that...’, Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A15, pp. 141-146.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/101085
Also republished in Volume One of Collected Works.

1968#    ‘On the prosodic features of the modern English finite verb as means of functional sentence perspective (More thoughts on transition proper)’, Brno Studies in English 7, pp. 11-48.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118023
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1968      ‘Über das Zusammenspiel prosodischer Elemente in der funktionellen Satzperspektive’ [On the interplay of prosodic elements in functional sentence perspective], Moderne Sprachen 12, pp. 40-45.

1969      ‘On the prosodic features of the modern English finite verb-objectc combination as means of functional sentence perspective’, Brno Studies in English 8, pp. 49-59.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118038
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1970      ‘Linguistic research in the Brno Philosophical Faculty and its associations with the Linguistic School of Prague’, Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A18, pp. 93-111.
Available online at https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/101443
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1970#    ‘Note on the prosodic features as means of functional sentence perspective’, in B. Hála, M. Romportl, & P. Janota (Eds): Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague: Academia, pp. 327-330.
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1970      ‘On the interplay of means of functional sentence perspective’, in A. Gnur (Ed.): Actes du dixieme congres international des linguistes, Bucharest: Académie de la République Socialiste de Roumani, pp. 741-745.
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1971      ‘On the concept of communicative dynamism in the theory of functional sentence perspective’, Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A19, pp. 135-144.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100731
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1972#    ‘A note on the intonation of questions from the point of view of the theory of functional sentence perspective’, Phonetica Pragensia 3, pp. 91-94.
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1972      ‘Die Funktion der Frage im Kommunikationsprozess’ [The function of the question in communication process], Postilla Bohemica 1, pp. 45-58. 

1972#    ‘Funktsii voprosa v protsesse kommunikatsii’ [Functions of the question in communication process], Voprosy yazykoznaniya 2, pp. 55-65.
Available online at https://www.ruslang.ru/doc/voprosy/voprosy1972-2.pdf
Also republished in English in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1972#    ‘Non-thematic subjects in contemporary English: A contribution to the problem of central and peripheral phenomena in the system of functional sentence perspective’, in W. A. Koch (Ed.): Strukturelle Textanalyse, Hildesheim/New York: Olms, pp. 24-40.

1972#    ‘On the interplay of prosodic and non-prosodic means of functional sentence perspective (A theoretical note on the teaching of English intonation)’,  in V. Fried (Ed.): The Prague School of Linguistics and Language Teaching, London: Oxford University Press, pp. 77-94.
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1973#    ‘Zamechanie o roli temporal’nykh i modal’nykh ukazateley lichnoy formy glagola v aktual'nom chlenenii’, Otázky slovanské syntaxe 3, pp. 135-140.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/120840
Also republished in English in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1974#    ‘O pojęciu dynamiczności wypowiedzeniowej w teorii funkcjonalnej perspektywy zdania’ [On the notion of communicaative dynamism in the theory of functional sentence perspective], in M. R. Mayenowa (Ed.): Tekst i język. Problemy semantyczne, Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, pp. 9-21.

1974      ‘Some aspects of the Czechoslovak approach to problems of functional sentence perspective’, in F. Daneš (Ed.): Papers on Functional Sentence Perspective, Prague: Academia, pp. 11-37.
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1975#    ‘On "existence/appearance on the scene" in functional sentence perspective’, Prague Studies in English 16, pp. 47-70.
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1975#    ‘On the thematic and the non-thematic section of the sentence’, in H. Ringbom (Ed.): Style and Text: Studies Presented to Nils Erik Enkvist, Stockholm: Skriptor, pp. 317-334.
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1976#    ‘A study in the functional sentence perspective of the English and the Slavonic interrogative sentences’, Brno Studies in English 12, pp. 9-56.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118071
Also republished in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1978#    ‘K problematice tématu výpovědi’ [On the problems concerning the theme of the utterance], in M. R. Mayenowa (Ed.): Tekst. Język. Poetyka, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, pp. 29-46.
Also republished in English in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1979#    ‘A functional view of "ordo naturalis"’, Brno Studies in English 13, pp. 29-59.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118085
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1979      ‘O tematické a netematické části věty’ [On the thematic and the non-thematic section of the sentence], in Kurs odborného anglického překladu pro pracovníky VTEI, Pardubice: Dům techniky ČSVTS, pp. 127-157.

1979#    ‘Úvaha o Ertlově pojetí českého slovního pořádku’ ['Reflections on Ertl’s conception of Czech word order'], Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A27, pp. 185-196.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100290
Also republished in English in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1980#    ‘On the concept of the "basic distribution of communicative dynamism"’, in English Studies: Articles on English and American Literature and the English Language, Vol. 1, Sofia: The Kliment of Ohrida University of Sofia, pp. 79-89.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1980#    ‘Post-intonation-centre prosodic shade in the modern English clause’, in S. Greenbaum, G. Leech & J. Svartvik (Eds): Studies in English Linguistics for Randolph Quirk, London: Longman, pp. 125-133.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1980#    ‘K pojmu základního rozložení výpovědní dynamičnosti’ [On the concept of the basic distribution of communicative dynamism], Otázky slovanské syntaxe 4/2, pp. 143-146.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/121634

1980#    ‘Ke konfrontačním studiím o aktuálním členění větném’ [On comparative studies about FSP], Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity A28, pp. 19-28.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/100817
Also republished in English in Volume Two of Collected Works.

1981#    ‘A note on static semantics and dynamic semantics’, in F. Daneš & D. Viehweger (Eds): Satzsemantische Komponenten und Relationen im Text, Prague: Ústav pro jazyk český, pp. 78-87.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1981 ‘Die Träger des kommunikativen Dynamismus’ [Carriers of communicative dynamism], in G. Weise (Ed.): Kommunikativ-funktionale Sprachbetrachtung 1, Halle an der Saale: Martin-Luther-Universität, pp. 80-86.

1981#    ‘Scene and perspective’, Brno Studies in English 14, pp. 37-79.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118096
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1982#    ‘Has every sentence a theme and a rheme?’, in J. Anderson (Ed.): Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers Dedicated to Angus McIntosh, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 97-116.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1982#    ‘Aktuální členění větné(,) či "funkční perspektiva větná"?’ [Is "functional sentence perspective" an equivalent of "aktuální členění větné"?], Slovo a slovesnost 43, pp. 282-293.
Available online at https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/search/handle/uuid:c89c9333-530d-11e1-1418-001143e3f55c
Also republished in English in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1982      ‘Nositelé stupňů výpovědní dynamičnosti’ [Carriers of the degrees of communicative dynamism], in XV. ročenka Kruhu moderních filologů při Československé akademii věd 1981-1982, Prague: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, pp. 3-8.

1983#    ‘On bipartition, tripartition and pluripartition in the theory of functional sentence perspective’, in T. Dobrzyńska & E. Janus (Eds): Tekst i zdanie, Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, pp. 67-79.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1983# ‘On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective (Comments on Alexander Szwedek's critique)', Brno Studies in English 15, pp. 9-36.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104012
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1983      ‘On the concepts of scene and perspective in Fillmore's approach and in that of functional sentence perspective’, in S. Rot (Ed.): Languages in Function: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 1980 Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europea, Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, pp. 101-107.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1984#    ‘Carriers of communicative dynamism’, Prague Studies in English 18, pp. 63-73.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1985#    ‘Thoughts on functional sentence perspective, intonation and emotiveness’, Brno Studies in English 16, pp. 11-48.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104482
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1986#    ‘A case study in the dynamics of written communication’, in D. Kastovsky & A. Szwedek (Eds): Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: In Honour of Jacek Fisiak, Berlin/Amsterdam/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 859-876.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1986#    ‘A systemic view of functional sentence perspective’, in T. Dobrzyńska (Ed.): Teoria tekstu, Wroclaw: Polska Akademia Nauk, pp. 17-33.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1986#    ‘On the dynamics of written communication in the light of the theory of functional sentence perspective’, in C. R. Cooper, & S. Greenbaum (Eds): Studying Writing: Linguistic Approaches, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, pp. 40-71.
Also republished in Volume Three of Collected Works.

1987#    'On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective II (On Wallace L. Chafe's view on new and old information and communicative dynamism)’, Brno Studies in English 17, pp. 51-59.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104165
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works. 

1987#    ‘On the delimitation of the theme in functional sentence perspective’, in R. Dirven & V. Fried (Eds): Functionalism in Linguistics, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 137-156.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1987#    ‘On the operation of communicative dynamism in functional sentence perspective’, Leuvense Bijdragen 76, pp. 289-304.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1987#    ‘On two starting points of communication’, in R. Steele & T. Threadgold (Eds): Language Topics: Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 23-46.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1987#    ‘Sentence as a field of relations’, in E. Hajičová, J. Povejšil & P. Sgall (Eds): Explizite Beschreibung der Sprache und automatische Textbearbeitung. 14. Probleme und Perspektiven der Satz- und Textforschung, Prague: Charles University, pp. 59-66.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1987#    ‘Thoughts on functional sentence perspective, intonation and emotiveness. Part Two’, Brno Studies in English 17, pp. 9-49.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104166
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1988      ‘On the role of the parts of speech in functional sentence perspective’, in J. Klegraf & D. Nehls (Eds): Essays on the English Language and Applied Linguistics on the Occasion of Gerhard Nickel''s 60th Birthday, Heidelberg: Julius Groos, pp. 96-109.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1989      ‘Interpreting Psalm 91 from the point of view of functional sentence perspective’, in L. E. Breivik, A. Hille & S. Johansson (Eds): Essays on the English Language in Honour of Bertil Sundby, Oslo: Novus Forlag, pp. 107-116.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1990      ‘Degrees of communicative dynamism and degrees of prosodic prominence (weight)’, Brno Studies in English 18, pp. 21-66.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104234

1990#    ‘On the hierarchy of factors in functional sentence perspective’, in W. Bahner, J. Schildt & D. Viehweger (Eds): Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Linguists. Volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, pp. 2065-2067. 

1990 #  ‘On the vexed question of context in functional sentence perspective’, in T. Dobrzyńska (Ed.): Tekst w kontekście, Wroclaw: Polska Akademia Nauk, pp. 41-54.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1991      ‘Dagli studi comparativi sull' ordine delle parole. Riflessioni sull' interpretazione di V. Mathesius del sistema dell' ordine delle parole in inglese a confronto con quello del ceco.', in A. Svoboda & R. Sornicola (Eds): Il campo di tensione. La sintassi della Scuola di Praga, Napoli: Liguori Editore, pp. 347-372.
Also republished in English in Volume One of Collected Works.

1991      ‘Il funzionamento del dinamismo comunicativo nella prospettiva funzinale della frase’, in A. Svoboda & R. Sornicola (Eds): Il campo di tensione. La sintassi della Scuola di Praga, Napoli: Liguori Editore, pp. 195-209
Also republished in English in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1991#    ‘On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective III (On discreteness in functional sentence perspective)’, Brno Studies in English 19, pp. 77-92.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104426
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works. 

1992      ‘On some basic problems of functional sentence perspective’, in M. Davies & L. Ravelli (Eds): Advances in Systemic Linguistics: Recent Theory and Practice, London/New York: Pinter, pp. 167-188.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1992#    ‘The why’s and how’s in my research into functional sentence perspective’, in M. Pütz (Ed.): Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in Honour of René Dirven on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 333-357.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1992      ‘Translation and functional sentence perspective (A case study of John 1.1-2)’, in A. van Essen & E. I. Burkart (Eds): Essays in English as a Foreign or Second Language: Homage to W. R. Lee, Berlin/New York: Foris, pp. 221-231.
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1993#    ‘Can the functional perspective of a spoken sentence be predicted from that of its written counterpart? An inquiry based on a comparative analysis of J. D. O’Connor’s and R. Kingdon’s tonetic transcriptions of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address’, Brno Studies in English 20, pp. 23-49.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104392
Also republished in Volume Four of Collected Works.

1994#    ‘Communicative purpose as conveyed by functional sentence perspective (A case study of Psalm 111.10)’, in K. Carlton, K. Davidse & B. Rudzka-Ostyn (Eds): Perspectives on English, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, pp. 203-212.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1994      ‘Functional sentence perspective in Bible translation’, in H. Pavlincová & D. Papoušek (Eds): The Bible in Cultural Context, Brno: Czech Society for the Study of Religions/Masaryk University, pp. 125-137.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1994      ‘Round table on functional linguistics, 1st April 1993, University of Vienna: Prof. J. Firbas’, VIenna English Working paperS 3/1, pp. 4-5.

1994#    ‘Substantiating Daneš's view of givenness as a graded phenomenon’, in S. Čmejrková & F. Štícha (Eds): The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 119-129.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1995      ‘A contribution on a panel discussion on rheme’, in M. Ghadesy (Ed.): Thematic Development in English Texts, London/New York: Pinter, pp. 213-222.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1995      ‘On the thematic and the rhematic layers of the text’, in B. Warvik, S-K. Tanskanen & R. Hiltunen (Eds): Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference, Turku: University of Turku, pp. 59-72.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1995#    ‘Retrievability span in functional sentence perspective’, Brno Studies in English 21, pp. 17-45.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104106
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1996#    ‘A case study in linear modification (On translating Apoc. 21.6b)’, Brno Studies in English 22, pp. 23-48.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104298
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1996      ‘Exploring Vilém Mathesius' use of the term theme. Part I’, Linguistica Pragensia 39/1, pp. 5-23.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1996      ‘Exploring Vilém Mathesius' use of the term theme. Part II’, Linguistica Pragensia 39/2, pp. 63-86.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1996#    ‘Mobility of clause constituents and functional sentence perspective’, in B. H. Partee & P. Sgall (Eds): Discourse and Meaning: Papers in Honour of Eva Hajičová, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 221-233.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works. 

1997#    ‘On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective IV (Some thoughts on Marie Luise Thein's critique of the theory)’, Brno Studies in English 23, pp. 51-86.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104340
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works. 

1998      ‘Answers to questions put to an FSP theorist by Professor E. M. Uhlenbeck’, in M. Janse (Ed.): Productivity and Creativity: Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in Honour of E. M. Uhlenbeck, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 55-67.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1998#    ‘On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective V (Some more thoughts on Marie Luise Thein's critique of the theory)’, Brno Studies in English 24, pp. 11-32.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104024
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1999      ‘Communicative dynamism’, in J. Verschueren, J.-O. Östman, J. Blommaert & C. Bulcaen (Eds): Handbook of Pragmatics 1999, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1999#    ‘Dogs must be carried on the escalator’, Brno Studies in English 25, pp. 7-18.
Available online at https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104499
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1999#    ‘On dynamic semantic homogeneity in functional sentence perspective’, in U. Carls & P. Lucko (Eds): Form, Function and Variation in English: Studies in Honour of Klaus Hansen, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 305-317.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1999      ‘On the conditions of the occurrence of the intonation centre on the final sentence constituent’, in O. Fujimura, B. D. Joseph & B. Palek (Eds): Proceedings of LP'98. Item Order in Language and Speech, Prague: Charles University, pp. 111-123.

1999#    ‘The theory of functional sentence perspective as a reflection of an effort towards a means-ends model of language’, in E. Hajičová, T. Hoskovec, O. Leška, P. Sgall & Z. Skoumalová (Eds): Prague Linguistic Circle Papers 3, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 237-248.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

1999      ‘Translating the introductory paragraph of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago: A case study in functional sentence perspective’, in G. Anderman & M. Rogers (Eds): Word, Text, Translation: Liber Amicorum for Peter Newmark, Clevedon/Buffalo/Toronto/Sydney: Multilingual Matters, pp. 129-141.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

2000#    ‘Notes on some basic concepts of the theory of FSP: With a response to Robert de Beaugrande’, R. de Beaugrande (Ed.): In Honour of Jan Firbas (online), [Originally available online at http://www.beaugrande.com/FirbasFest.htm – LastSaved 2000-02-04T07:57:00Z; not available on 9 Jan 2020.]
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.

2000      ‘Notes on some basic concepts of the theory of functional sentence perspective’, in A. Klégr & J. Čermák (Eds): The Tongue is an Eye: Studies Presented to Libuše Dušková, Prague: Charles University, pp. 21-32.
Also republished in Volume Five of Collected Works.