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The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the formal criteria for their recognition and the relations between the two concepts. Using the systemic functional model as their point of departure, the papers in the present volume consider the two notions in a wider context by relating them to the interpersonal and textual metafunctions of language.

801.56 --- #KVHA:Linguistiek; Engels --- #KVHA:Semantiek; Engels --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Analyse du discours --- Sujet et prédicat --- Topic and comment --- Discourse analysis. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. --- Linguistics. --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Topic and comment.

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This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity - or case grammar, to use the popular term - has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged relation to states of affairs in the real world. Using a systemic functional perspective, the ten papers in this volume make a contribution to this scholarship by focusing on the transitivity patterns in language as the expression of the experiential metafunction. Through a study of different languages - E

Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Metalanguage. --- Second-order language --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Structural linguistics --- Philology