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In this course, J. Firbas' theory of Functional Sentence perspective will be applied to modern Dutch. According to this Czech scholar, the FSP is the final result (within the syntactic possibilities) of a tension between (what he calls) the basic distribution of thematic, transitional and rhematic elements on the one hand, the contextual dependence and the semantic structure on the other hand. First hand evidence will be adduced to show that word order in Dutch can be considered as the result of an interplay between syntactic, semantic and functional principles.
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- Firbas, J., 1992, Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
- Geerts, G., W. Haeseryn, J. De Rooij & M.C. van den Toorn, 1992, Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst. Groningen/ Leuven : Wolters-Noordhoff [ANS], pp. 1235-1247.
- Godin, P.,1992, La Perspective communicative de la phrase: une application au néerlandais. In : J. Lerot & Ch. Thys (eds). Texte, Communication et Cognition. Louvain-La-Neuve, Documents du DIFR: Cahiers F.L.E. N°2, 87-108.
- Godin, P., 1999, Rhématisation du sujet grammatical en néerlandais et les correspondants en français et en anglais, in : Le langage et l'homme XXXIV, n°1, 1999, pp. 25-43.
- Taalbaakbulletin, 1996, Van links naar rechts - De plaats van informatie in de zin. In: Taalbaakbulletin, december 1996, 12-16.
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