Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017
Abstract
The paper presents a cross-linguistic study of presentative semantic pattern, i.e. a pattern whose function is to introduce a new phenomenon in the discourse situation, relating it to an already established location. Our paper explores the possibility to employ the recurrent Czech presentative construction to track among its translation counterparts syntactically diverse English patterns which perform the same presentative function.
Our study demonstrated that the potential of the sentence to convey the presentation idea is primarily based on the presentation function of the verb.