Determination, means of functional sentence perspective and meta-informative status of nominal group of subject

This rigorosum thesis is dealing with the lexical units that determine the subject and examines how the informational structure of the utterance is being impacted by these elements. Comparing the French and Czech linguistic data helps set up the list of the principal determinants (such as the definite and indefinite article in French, demonstrative pronouns, position of the subject in the Czech sentence with regard to the verb, cleft sentences, adverbial and particle expressions etc.) surrounding the subject nominal group. These elements also raise the so-called meta-informative status of the utterance. The functioning of the meta-information in the utterances explains the Meta-informative Centering Theory, which is the theoretical approach of the French linguists Hélène and André Włodarczyk, professors at University Paris-Sorbonne. This thesis also refers to the Czech linguists who founded the bases of semantic and pragmatic relationships of the utterances (essays of Vilém Mathesius, functional sentence perspective of Jan Firbas, studies of František Daneš and Petr Sgall and his colleagues). However, the analysis presented in this thesis is exclusively based on the theoretical point of view of the Meta- informative Centering Theory. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org