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Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying subjects as well. This title also concerns itself with the basic verb phrase relations; not only with direct and indirect objects, but locative and directional phrases, with-phrases, and of-phrases considered. This book will be of interest to students of English language and linguistics.

English language -- Grammar, Generative. --- English language -- Topic and comment. --- English Language --- English --- Languages & Literatures

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English language --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Sentences --- Topic and comment --- -English language --- -Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Speech --- Germanic languages --- Philosophy --- Subject and predicate --- Theme and rheme --- Syntax --- English language - Sentences --- English language - Topic and comment

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English language --- Grammar --- Sujet et prédicat --- -Engelse literatuur--?.075 --- Sujet et prédicat --- Anglais (Langue) --- Topic and comment --- Discourse analysis --- Analyse du discours --- 820.075 --- -English language --- -820.075 Engelse literatuur--?.075 --- Engelse literatuur--?.075 --- 820.075 Engelse literatuur--?.075 --- Subject and predicate --- Theme and rheme --- Syntax --- Discourse analysis. --- Topic and comment. --- Germanic languages --- English language - Topic and comment --- English language - Discourse analysis

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Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamism over sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective of the sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, and implementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to the relation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals with spoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplay of FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tackles the relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors and the distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about by intonation.

English language --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Anglais (Langue) --- Sujet et prédicat --- Topic and comment --- Topic and comment. --- 801.56 --- -Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Germanic languages --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative --- -Syntaxis. Semantiek --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- -801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Comparative grammar --- Sujet et prédicat --- 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 --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment. --- English language - Topic and comment.