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English Word Order and the Principle of FSP

Author(s) -

Eglė Petronienė,

Ina Šimkienė

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

žmogus ir žodis

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1822-7805

pISSN - 1392-8600

DOI - 10.15823/zz.2016.17

Subject(s) - sentence , word order , linguistics , computer science , word (group theory) , natural language processing , process (computing) , order (exchange) , artificial intelligence , syntactic structure , type (biology) , philosophy , finance , economics , operating system , ecology , biology

In the article, the syntactic potential of English is explored by carrying out a functional syntactic analysis of Carson McCullers’ short stories. The analysis shows that the main causes of noncanonical ordering of sentence elements in English are thematization by means of preposing and rhematization by postposing sentence elements. The preposed elements were semantically diverse, though the frequency of occurrence of different process type sentences varied. The postposed elements were process-specific. The ‘syntactic configurations’ of the canonical word order were determined by particular semantic, structural and contextual restrictions.

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