Table of Contents // Acknowledgements...9 // Foreword (Eva Hajicová)...13 // Introduction (Jarmila Támyiková)...15 // Editor’s Note (Markéta Janebová)...17 // Section I: Scalarity and Language Taxonomies // James White’s Attempt at a Systemic Analysis of the English Verb...21 // Dichotomies and Scales...31 // Clines of Categoriality in Sentence Complexing...45 // English Borrowings in Czech: Health to Our Mouths?...55 // Halliday’s Interpersonal Component Reconsidered...69 // Clines of Categoriality in Ivan Poldauf’s Theoretical Framework...81 // Section II: Syntax and Text // Sentence Patterns in Communication (A Processing Strategy)...97 // Language Manifestation of Communicative Strategies...Ill // From Mainstream Text to Text Colonies: The Case of Personal Advertisements...121 // Definiteness from a Textual Perspective... 131 // Role strukturních stereotypu v textu...141 // A Text-Level Approach to Sentence Complexes (English-Czech Interface)...147 // Section III: Information Packaging // Information Structure and Thematic Sentence Variation... 163 // Foregrounding through Deviation... 175 // Constructions with Shell Nouns in English: // Their Dual Role in Information Packaging... 183 // Section IV: Miscellany // The Match Was in the Bag...203 // There Was a Linguist of Eminence in Prague...205 // Zpet ke korenum...207 // O komárkovských kakaích...211 // Why Dushinka...213 // Dear Professor Peprnik...215 // .. .prectete si Mathesia. Rozhovor s jubilantkou