New phenomena on the old scene: a Czech view of English presentative constructions

Abstract

The study focuses on constructions which share the same discourse function and whose obligatory constituents display the same semantic roles; but their syntactic structure may vary ('semantic sequences'). It provides a contrastive corpus-supported view of the various means used in Czech and in English to present a new phenomenon on a scene known to the participants of the communication.

Keywords

• Czech/English
• parallel corpora
• presentative constructions