Lecture 15 The Sentence.

Lecture 15

The Sentence.

The Sentence: Definition and Study Approaches.

The most essential features of the sentence are: 1) it is a predicative unit (it (1) presents the referents as making up a… 2) it is intonationally delimited.

Predication and Modality

The general semantic category of modality is also defined by linguists as exposing the connection between the named objects and surrounding reality.… 1) lexemes of full notional standing (as probability, desirability, necessity… 2) semi-functional words and phrases of probability and existential evaluation (perhaps, may be, by all means,…

Actual Division of the Sentence (J. Mathesius): General Notion

Alongside of the nominative division of the sentence, the idea of the actual division of the sentence has been put forward in theoretical… The main components of the actual division of the sentence are the theme and… The theme expresses the starting point of the communication, it denotes an object or a phenomenon about which…

The rheme making devices.

(1) The difference between the actual division of sentences signalled by the difference in their word-order patterns can be illustrated by… I. The winner of the competition stood on the platform in the middle of the hall.– On the platform in the middle of the…