On the Presentational Capacity of Thetic-like Sentences

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2012-2-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2012-2-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2012-2-5" target="_blank" >10.5817/DI2012-2-5</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the Presentational Capacity of Thetic-like Sentences
Original language description
Within the Firbasian framework of the theory of FSP, sentences are understood to implement either the Presentation Scale or the Quality Scale; the author?s research into the area of FSP has recently dealt with the role of the English verb operating in Presentation Scale sentences (Pr-sentences) (Adam 2011, 2012; cf. 2009). In addition to the existential there-construction, it is the configuration of the rhematic subject in preverbal position that seems to convey existence/appearance on the scene most frequently in English (A cruel smile hovered over her face). The present corpus-based paper proposes to shed light on the structure and the function of a rather specific type of Pr-sentences patterning as relatively short structures with a tentatively context-independent subject (The potatoes are boiling). Such sentences functionally resemble statements that came to be labelled as ?thetic? or sometimes ?all-new sentences? (Mathesius 1975: 87, Firbas 1992: 86-87, cf. Kuroda 1972, Lewis 2001
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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