• Original research article
  • March 29, 2011
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PREPOSITIVE RHEMATIC SUBJECT PHENOMENON IN ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL LITERATURE

Abstract

Constructions with prepositive (in the position before predicate) rhematic subject in scientific and technical literature functional style are researched. Their theoretical status is substantiated, its identification means general characteristic is given.

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Author information

Lyubov' Alekseevna Khlabutina

National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University

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  • Published: March 29, 2011.

Keywords

  • рематическое подлежащее
  • критерии ремы
  • фразоначальная рема
  • научная и техническая литература
  • актуальное членение предложения
  • прямой порядок слов
  • rhematic subject
  • rheme criteria
  • phrase beginning rheme
  • scientific and technical literature
  • sentence actual segmentation
  • direct word order

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