From Syntax to Text : the Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Syntactic constancy -- 1. Constancy of the syntactic and FSP function of the subject -- 2. Syntactic constancy of adverbials between English and Czech -- 3. A side view of syntactic constancy of adverbials between English and Czech -- 4. Syntactic constancy of the subject complement. Part 1: A comparison between Czech and English -- 5. Syntactic constancy of the subject complement. Part 2: A comparison between English and Czech -- 6. Syntactic constancy of clause elements between English and Czech -- 7. Syntactic constancy of the verb between English and Czech -- 8. Noun modification in English and czech: a contrastive view -- II. Syntax FSP interface -- 9. From the heritage of Vilém Mathesius and Jan Firbas: Syntax in the service of FSP -- 10. Basic distribution of communicative dynamism vs. nonlinear indication of functional sentence perspective -- 11. Synonymy vs. differentiation of variant syntactic realizations of FSP functions -- 12. Syntactic forms of the presentation scale and their differentiation -- 13. Systemic possibilities of variable word order and their realization in text -- 14. Note on a potential textual feature of putative should -- 15. On Bohumil Trnka's concept of neutralization and its nature on the higher language levels -- 16. Some thoughts on potentiality in syntactic and FSP structure -- III. FSP and semantics -- 17. The relations between semantics and FSP as seen by Anglicist members of the Prague Linguistic Circle -- 18. Expressing indefiniteness in English -- IV. Syntax, FSP, text -- 19. Theme movement in academic discourse -- 20. Theme development in academic and narrative text -- 21. Syntactic construction, information structure and textual role: an interface view of the cleft sentence -- 22. A textual view of noun modification -- V. Style.

23. Textual links as indicators of different functional styles -- 24. Noun modification in fiction and academic prose -- References.

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