The functional perspective on the phrase and typology

Abstract

The framework of the Prague school of language typology was used to demonstrate how the language universal of theme/rheme dichotomy manifests itself in the surface structure of polysynthetic languages, such as Vietnamese.

Keywords

• deep structure
• equivalence of meaning
• functional sentence perspective
• inflectional languages
• language typology
• rheme
• surface structure
• theme
• Vietnamese
• word order