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Passivization of ditransitive verbs from the FSP point of view
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 2015
Abstract: The present paper aims at contributing to the study of passivization of ditransitive complementation from the FSP point of view. English ditransitive verbs generally allow two passive constructions, i.e. the subject of a ...
Textual roles of two forms of rhematic subjects: initial rhematic subjects vs. subjects rhematized by it-clefts
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 2015
Abstract: The paper discusses two realization forms of rhematic subjects, initial rhematic subjects construed with a presentation verb and an optional scene-setting adverbial, and rhematic subjects in the underlying form of ...
Creating a system of annotation for FSP
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 2015
Abstract: The article presents the recent initiative of the authors of the article to prepare the ground for setting up a corpus of texts annotated from the viewpoint of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP). The authors are followers ...
Tough-constructions and the issue of thematicity: a study of the word easy in 17th and 18th century English
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 2015
Abstract: This article presents an analysis of tough-constructions (TCs) which attempts to describe the formal syntactic properties of these constructions in light of their functional sentence perspective (FSP). It has been suggested ...
Linearity in functional sentence perspective: the strength of the weak factor
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 2015
Abstract: When the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) is applied to English, the linear arrangement of clause constituents is considered the weakest of the four factors indicating the distribution of communicative ...