Functional Grammar of M. Halliday for Identifying the Elements in Topic Position in Bulgarian Sentence Cover Image

Функционалната граматика на М. Халидей за определяне на елементите от тематичното поле в българското просто изречение
Functional Grammar of M. Halliday for Identifying the Elements in Topic Position in Bulgarian Sentence

Author(s): Elisaveta Balabanova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Higher Education , Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Functional grammar; M.A.K. Halliday; topic; Bulgarian sentence; syntactic elements functioning as topics

Summary/Abstract: The text uses the Functional Grammar of M. A. K. Halliday (Halliday, 1985; Halliday & Mathiessen, 2004) and the definition of Halliday as the topic being this that the speaker decides to make a starting point of his message. Using this definition in a corpus, comprising of only first paragraphs of contemporary Bulgarian fiction, we make conclusions about which sentence parts are most commonly used as a topic. A hierarchy of the most common sentence parts, which function as topic, is defined. The conclusions show that the referentiality and the syntactic features of the sentence elements are the reasons for an element to function as a topic.

  • Issue Year: 59/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 453-465
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian