Publication details
Zum Informationswert der deutschen und tschechischen Satzspitzen
| Title in English | Communicative value of the Czech and German Sentence beginnings |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brünner Hefte zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
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| Keywords | contrastive syntax; dependency grammar; word order; functional sentence perspective; theme; rheme; corpus analysis; parallel corpus |
| Description | This article presents the second part of a contrastive study on word order and functional sentence perspective, which is based on authentic language material from the Czech-German parallel corpus InterCorp. The introductory research forming part of a more complex project deals with elements that occupy the first sentence position in German and in Czech, examines their frequency and looks for parallels and discrepancies in these two languages. The subsequent research deals with the first sentence positions in terms of functional sentence perspective. It describes and compares grammatical (“fixed”), thematic and rhematic sentence beginnings in both languages. The results of the contrastive research will form a theoretical basis for recommendations for the treatment of word order and functional sentence perspective at different levels of foreign language teaching. |