Preface 1. 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 2. Syntax FSP Interface 9. From the heritage of Vilém Mathesius 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 realization 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. Style 23.
Textual links as indicators of different functional styles 24. Noun modification in fiction and academic prose References.