LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS 7 // PROLOGUE 9 // ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS II // 1 THE PRELIMINARIES AND FUNDAMENTALS 13 // 1.1 Introduction 13 // 1.2 The Phenomenon of Presentation 14 // 1.3 Research Objectives 16 // 1.4 The Research Corpus 16 // 1.4.1 Subcorpus A - Fiction Narrative 19 // 1.4.2 Subcorpus K Biblical Narrative 20 // 1 .5 Methods and Procedure 23 // 2 THE ENGLISH VERB 25 // 2.1 Opening Remarks 25 // 2.2 The English Verb: Morpiio-Syntactic Aspects 26 // 2.3 The English Verb: Syntactic-Semantic Classification 27 // 2.4 The English Verb: Semantics 29 // 2.4.1 Dynamic Semantics 30 // 2.4.2 Static Semantics 32 // 2.5 Verb Semantics as Treated in the Present Study 34 // 2.5.1 K Note on Surface Structure and Deep Structure 35 // 3 THE THEORY OF FSP 37 // 3.1 FSP and Its Place in Linguistics 37 // 3.2 Functional Sentence Perspective 39 // 3.2.1 The linear modification factor 40 // 3.2.2 The contextual factor 42 // 3.2.3 The semantic factor 43 // 3.2.3.1 The Prcscnlation Scale 45 // 3.2.3.2 The Quality Scale 46 // 3.2.3.3 The Combined Scale 46 // 3.2.3.4 The Extended Presentation Scale 47 // 3.2.4 Intonation 48 // 3.2.5 The hierarchy of communicative units 49 // 3.3 The English Presentation Verb through the Prism of FSP 51 // 3.3. / Explicit expression of existence or appearance on the scene 52 // 3.3.2 Implicit expression of existence or appearance on the scene 53 // 3.3.3 FSP research into Pr-verbs 53 // 3 // 3.4 FSP & Kті ihr Theories of Information Structure 54 // 3.4.1 Hajičová, Sgalletal: Topic-Focus Articulation 55 // 3.4.2 Chafe: Activation 56 // 3.4.3 Halliday, Quirk. Greenbaum, Leech, Svartvik etc.: // Information Processing 56 // 4 THE CLASSIFICATION OF PR-SENTENCES 59 // 4.1 Pr-sentences typology in Subcorpus A 60 // 4.1.1 Subtype I: Existential There-construction 62 // 4.1.2 Subtype 2: Rhematic subject in preverbal position 66 //
4.1.3 Subtype 3: Fronted Adverbial & S V inversion 68 // 4.1.4 Subtype 4: Locative Th-subject & Rh-ohject 69 // 4.1.5 Summary 69 // 4.1.6 Special FSP features of fiction narrative 71 // 4.2 Pr-sentences typology in Suhcorpus K 72 // 4.2.1 Subtype 1: Existential There-Construction 73 // 4.2.2 Subtype 2: Rhematic subject in preverbal position 74 // 4.2.3 Subtype 3: Fronted adverbial <£ S-V inversion 76 // 4.2.4 Subtype 4: Locative Th-subject & Rh-object 76 // 4.2.5 Summary 77 // 4.2.6 Special FSP features of biblical narrative 79 // 4.3 Comparison of Fiction Narrative and Biblical Narrative 82 // 5 SYNTACTIC-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THE PR-VERBS 85 // 5.1 Statistics and Procedure 85 // 5.2 Exhaustive List of Pr-Verbs: Analysis 87 // 5.2.1 Subtype IA Existential construction with verb other than be 91 // 5.2.2 Subtype 2 - Rhematic subject in preverbal position 95 // 5.2.3 Subtype 2A Rhematic subject in preverbal position with S-V affinity 109 // 5.2.3.1 Subject-Verb Semantic Affinity: Classification 118 // 5.2.3.2 Thciic Sentences 129 // 5.2.4 Subtype 213 Rhematic subject in preverbal position Disappearance.. 132 // 5.2.5 Subtype 2C Rh subject in preverbal position - Syntactic Discontinuity 135 // 5.2.6 Subtype 2D - Rhematic subject in preverbal position // Extended I’r-Scale 137 // 5.2.7 Subtype 3 - Fronted adverbial with S-K inversion 138 // 5.2.7.1 Copular Clauses with a Contcxl-dcpcndcm Nominal Part 142 // 5.2.8 Subtype KK - Fronted Adverbial with S-K Inversion Subjunctive 147 // 5.2.9 Subtype 4 - Locative Th-subject & Rh-object 148 // 5.3 Summary of the Analysis: Statistics 150 // 6 CONCLUSIONS 153 // 6.1 Occurrence and Syntactic Typology of Pr-scale Sentences 153 // 6.2 Syntactic-Semantic Nature of English Pr-Verbs 157 // 6.2.1 Semantic. Syntactic and FSP Markers of the Pr-Verb 159 // 4 // EPILOGUE 167 // REFERENCES 169 // SOURCES 179 // APPENDICES 181 // INDEX