Syntactic and FSP aspects of the existential construction in Norwegian / Pavel Dubec.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubec, Pavel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Norwegian language--Syntax.

Norwegian language.

Norwegian language--Topic and comment.

Norwegian language--Existential constructions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Prague : Charles University, Karolinum Press, [2019]

Summary:

Monografie Syntactic and FSP Aspects of the Existential Construction in Norwegian demonstruje aplikaci Firbasovy teorie aktuálního členění na norských psaných textech a zkoumá norskou existenciální konstrukci („presenteringskonstruksjonen“) z hlediska syntaxe, statické sémantiky, dynamické sémantiky a aktuálního členění větného.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. The subject matter

3. Methodology

4. The Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP)

4.1 The communicative dynamism (CD)

4.2 The communicative field

4.3 Carriers of CD (communicative units)

4.4 Communicative subfields

4.5 The FSP factors

4.5.1 Linearity

4.5.2 Context

4.5.2.1 Signals of context-dependence

4.5.2.2 The operation of context over a communicative field

4.5.3 Semantics

4.5.3.1 The verb and its successful competitors

4.5.3.2 Presentation scale and Quality scale

4.5.4 Intonation

5. The existential construction ('presenteringskonstruksjonen')

5.1 Syntactic aspects

5.1.1 The grammatical subject 'det'

5.1.1.1 Prop (empty) "det"

5.1.1.2 Anaphoric "det"

5.1.1.3 Anticipatory "det"

5.1.1.4 Existential "det"

5.1.2 The Verb

5.1.3 The notional subject

5.1.3.1 The position of the notional subject

5.1.3.2 The structure of the notional subject

5.1.3.2.1 Discontinuity in postmodification

5.1.3.3 Semantics of the head noun

5.1.4 Adverbials

5.1.4.1 Adjuncts

5.1.4.2 Disjuncts

5.1.4.3 Conjuncts

5.1.5 Potentiality in syntactic analysis

5.2 The FSP aspects

5.2.1 Theme

5.2.2 Rheme

5.2.3 Transition

5.2.4 Multiple adverbials performing various FSP functions

5.2.5 FSP patterns

5.2.6 Potentiality in the FSP analysis

6. Summary

7. Analysis

7.1 Syntactic analysis and static semantics

7.1.1 The position of the notional subject

7.1.2 The structure of the notional subject

7.1.2.1 Simple NP

7.1.2.2 Complex NP

7.1.2.2.1 Discontinuity in postmodification

7.1.2.3 Compound NP

7.1.3 Semantics of the head word

7.1.4 The Verb

7.1.5 Adverbials

7.1.5.1 Adjuncts

7.1.5.2 Disjuncts

7.1.5.3 Conjuncts

7.1.6 Potentiality in the syntactic analysis.

7.1.7 The conclusion of the syntactic analysis

7.2 FSP analysis

7.2.1 The FSP functions of NS

7.2.2 The FSP functions of the verb

7.2.3 The FSP functions of adverbials

7.2.3.1 Diatheme

7.2.3.2 Transition proper oriented element

7.2.3.3 Rheme proper

7.2.3.4 Instances with multiple adverbials

7.2.4 The FSP patterns

7.2.4.1 Th-Tr-Rh

7.2.4.2 Th - Tr/Rh

7.2.4.3 FSP patterns with a rhematic adverbial

7.2.5 Potentiality in the FSP analysis

7.2.6 Summary of the FSP analysis

8. The final conclusion

9. Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788024643175

8024643170