Browsing by Subject "focus"
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FOCUS PROJECTION IN BULGARIAN ENGLISH FROM AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE: COMPARISON WITH BRITISH ENGLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This paper investigates focus projection in Bulgarian English from an empirical perspective. The term Bulgarian English is used to refer to a variety of English spoken by English teachers who were born and have lived in ... -
SYNTACTIC CONDENSATION AND THE COMMUNICATIVE INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF THE HAVE-EXISTENTIAL
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2013)The article discusses the have-existential sentence both as an example of syntactic condensation and as a syntactic device of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP), which serves to locate the communicative focus of the ... -
WORD ORDER COMBINATORICS: “THE DANCE“ OF ADVERBIAL MODIFIERS IN THE SIMPLE DECLARATIVE UTTERANCE (ON ORAL SPEECH MATERIAL)
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2016)The focus of study is the possible word order combinations of various adverbial modifiers excerpted from the corpora of the Bulgarian oral speech. Attention is paid to the formal as well as to the information loaded word ...