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Efransyah, Efransyah. "ANALYZING THEMATIC STRUCTURE IN INDONESIAN FOLKTALES IN ENGLISH VERSION: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR (SFG)." PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) 1, no. 2 (October 22, 2019): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22460/project.v1i2.p85-94.

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This research is entitled “Analyzing Thematic Structure in Indonesian Folktales in English Version: A Systemic Functional Grammar Study (SFG)”. The objectives of this study are analyzing and describing the themes, their elements and thematic progressions of Indonesian Folktales in English Version. The collected data, in this research, were taken from the book entitled “Indonesian Folktales” published in 1981 by Pustaka Media Publisher. One data, Princess Sumur Bandung which consists of 50 paragraphs and 221 clauses was chosen to be analyzed based on the theory of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of Gerot and Wignell (1994). The method and technique used in this study are a descriptive qualitative method. The results of this research reveal that (1) there are two kinds of theme-rheme patterns are found; they are simple theme-rheme patterns and multiple theme-rheme patterns. In details, the simple theme-rheme patterns contain constant theme-rheme pattern, linear theme-theme rheme pattern, and derived theme-rheme pattern, while multiple ones contain a combination of constant and linear theme, a combination of linear and derived theme, and a combination of constant, linear and derived theme-rheme pattern. Besides, the combination of constant and linear theme-rheme pattern are the most frequently distributed. While the elements of themes which found are textual, interpersonal and ideational elements. Textual elements cover continuative, structural conjunction, wh-relative and conjunctive adjunct. Interpersonal elements cover modal adjunct, vocative, wh-interrogative and finite verbal operator. Ideational elements cover nominal group, noun, adverbial group, prepositional phrase, process, complement, group complex and adverb.
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Yanthi, Putu Marlina, and Mirsa Umiyati. "THEME AND THEMATIC STRUCTURE IN RESORT GURU GURU VOL.6 BROCHURE." RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa 4, no. 1 (May 14, 2018): 81–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/jr.4.1.645.81-85.

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Every clause has its own character as a message which is known as thematic structure. Its elements are divided into theme and rheme. Therefore this research gives an overview about theme and its development in the text. The purpose of this study is to describe (1) the types of themes contained in the Resort Guru Guru vol.6 brochure and (2) how the form of the thematic progression is contained in Resort Guru Guru vol.6 brochure. This research data is obtained from the written text contained in a brochure namely Resort Guru Guru vol.6. Data were analyzed by using thematic theory by Halliday and Mathiessen and theory of theme development by Paltridge. Based on the analysis, there are two findings in the analysis of items contained in the brochure that is (1) the fillers of theme in the clause is divided by types of clause consisting of declarative, interrogative, and imperative clauses. (2) the theme development pattern contained in this brochure consists of constant theme, linear theme, and split rheme, and there is also another pattern that is the development between rheme to rheme and between rheme to theme and rheme.
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Aziz, Yowell Y. "Theme-rheme organization and paragraph structure in standard Arabic." WORD 39, no. 2 (August 1988): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00437956.1988.11435785.

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Anis, Muhammad Yunus, Eva Farhah, and Afnan Arummi. "THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN ARABIC-JAVANESE TRANSLATION: CASE STUDY IN THE BOOK OF BIDAYAH AL-HIDAYAH." ADDIN 11, no. 2 (August 1, 2017): 463. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/addin.v11i2.2317.

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Communication involves the actual use of language in real. As we have known that language is the main medium for communication. One of the important thing to develop the effective communication is by packaging the structure of information. There are two basic elements in the information, they are: theme and rheme. Theme had been considered as the known information and the rheme absolutely had been considered as new information. This paradigm based on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Halliday considers language as having three main functions: (1) the ideational function; (2) the interpersonal function; and (3) the textual function. This paper will focus in the textual function and “clause as a message”. Arabic language has a unique structure of clauses, we can find two basic notions (mubtada’+khabar) and (fi’l+fa’il), in the other hand, semantically, we can find (musnad+musnad ilaih), so this article tried to find the correlation between the structure of Arabic clauses with (theme+rheme) construction. This article also will find out the kinds of theme in Arabic language (multiple themes, clause as themes, and predicated themes). Theme as an initial element in SFL should be described by looking the rheme in the text. The method in this research was divided into three parts: (1) collecting the data from the book of Modern Written Arabic and also some articles in the Arabic-Javanese translation book Bidayah al-Hidayah, the data is the clauses with nominal and verbal initial; (2) analysis data, using the descriptive analysis and distributional method; and (3) reporting the data (formal and informal). The result of this article had concluded that there is a near connection between (mubtada’+khabar), (fi’l+fa’il), and (musnad+musnad ilaih) with the theme and rheme construction based on the SFL theory.
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Viti, Carlotta. "Rheme before theme in the noun phrase." Studies in Language 32, no. 4 (September 12, 2008): 894–915. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.32.4.05vit.

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Information structure in the noun phrase remains unexplored or limited to the study of the s-form and the of-form in English, which are interpreted from the perspective of the Prague School. Accordingly, the prenominal s-form is chosen if the possessor expresses old information; conversely, if the possessor expresses new information, the postnominal of-form is preferred. Ancient Greek, however, indicates that this is not the sole pattern attested. In our data, drawn from Herodotus, a postposed genitive refers to the topic of the immediately preceding clauses, and has no semantically compatible referent around it. Preposed genitives denote new or discontinuous participants, and are used in contrastive and emphatic contexts. In this case, the principle “rheme before theme” can be identified.
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Dashela, Tarina. "THE ANALYSIS OF THEME AND RHEME IN SHORT STORY OF SLEEPING BEAUTY WITH A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL APPROACH." SALEE: Study of Applied Linguistics and English Education 2, no. 1 (January 21, 2021): 11–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.35961/salee.v2i01.201.

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This paper is about theme and rheme in the text of short story as approach using a Functional Grammar. The aims of this study are to identify theme and rheme, to classify the types and components of theme and to describe the correlation both theme and text development. The method used in this research is qualitative method. The data is taken from a short story entitled Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault. The data were analysed using some theories based on a Functional English Grammar. The findings of the research are there are two types of theme (Topical and Textual Theme) that could be found while Interpersonal theme couldn’t be found in the data. Moreover, the components of theme in the category of textual theme are conjunctive adjunct, conjunctive, structural, continuative and conjunction. Meanwhile for topical theme, the components of theme are as subject and marked topical theme (adverbial as theme). To know the correlation theme and text development, the researcher has identified and classified the text of short story. Therefore, in the Theme-Rheme structure of a text clause by clause, to gain an insight into its texture and understand how the writer clarify the nature of his underlying concerns.
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Meiarista, Kiki, and Widhiyanto Widhiyanto. "Theme-Rheme configuration in recount texts produced by Indonesian EFL students." ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching 9, no. 1 (July 21, 2020): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/elt.v9i1.37148.

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The topic of this study is the textual meaning in recount texts written by the fourth semester students of English Department Universitas Negeri Semarang in the academic year 2018/2019. This study is conducted since there are still limited research that is conducted in Indonesia which analyses the problems of thematic development because most of Indonesian researchers are only analyses the thematic structure and thematic development pattern. This study aimed to figure out the thematic structure, thematic development pattern, and the problems of thematic development in students’ recount texts. The text analysis of qualitative method was employed to enhance the results. The result of the thematic structures showed that the unmarked topical Theme was frequently used than the marked one in terms of topical Theme, the conjunctions became the mostly used element in textual Theme, and the modal adjuncts became the frequently used constituent in interpersonal Theme. In the case of thematic development patterns, the Theme re-iteration (constant Theme pattern) became the mostly used pattern since the function is to keep the text focused. It has been found that there were three problems of thematic development in students’ recount texts: (1) the problem of the brand-new Theme, (2) the problem of double Rheme, and (3) the problem of empty Rheme. The results of this study indicate that the students belong to beginner (inexperienced) writer.
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Savchenko, Yevheniia. "PHONETIC MEANS EXECUTING THEME AND RHEME FUNCTIONING IN SPEECH." Naukovy Visnyk of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky: Linguistic Sciences 18, no. 28 (July 2019): 165–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2019-28-15.

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The paper deals with phonetic means executing theme and rheme functioning in speech. The main components of prosodic arrangement of the theme and rheme structure of the utterance are studied, and a problem of structural units of intonation is investigated. Multi-functionality of intonation tends to complicate a study of speech prosody. At the stage of inventory and taxonomic analysis of the formal means of intonation the basic components of prosodic arrangement of the theme and rheme structure of the utterance are considered and a problem of the structural intonation units is studied. The analysis is based on a study of the material essence of the intonation units which differentiation is provided not only by the melodic component but also by speech intensity, speech tempo (including pauses), voice timbre as well as the integral prosodic characteristic — the phrase stress. It is possible to speak definitely about presence of essential differences in the degree of informational melody, speech intensity, tempo and timbre in the context of communication of meanings, and a complex nature of their accomplishment in speech. Therefore, it becomes important to study not just the role of each of these components in the accomplishment of the communicative function of intonation but also to establish their hierarchy, inter-relation and interdependence. Functional analysis of intonation is primarily aimed at specification of the very principle of classification of the intonation structure functional loading. It is advisable to study the relative autonomy of various functions and the nature of their interaction. The list of intonation functions may be limited with such a set: intelligent and logical function (segmentation by syntagms, links between syntagms, actual segmentation, accentual marking of the syntagm elements), differentiation function of the communication types (situations), the function expressing the emotional state and relations and the function that transfers modal relations. At the prosody level the actual segmentation of utterances is accomplished in speech primarily by using tonal and, partially, dynamic means of intonation (the emphasis is often linked to the forceful intonation components — intensity and energy component): at that, in order to identify the content, the place of stress is important as well as certain peculiarities of its accomplishment.
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Shuya, Wang. "Analysis of the Thematic Progression Patterns in English News Discourse." English Literature and Language Review, no. 73 (September 28, 2021): 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/ellr.73.59.63.

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The theory of theme and rheme and the patterns of thematic progression are not only two important parts of the systemic functional grammar but also an important means of discourse analysis. With thematic structure theory and patterns of thematic progression as the theoretical support, this research makes a combination of theoretical research and discourse analysis. This paper aims to find out the application and characteristics of the theme and rheme structure in English news discourse. After choosing the data from BBC (website:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795) reporting on 7th February 2020 with the title of Li Wenliang: Coronavirus Kills Chinese Whistleblower Doctor and giving a detailed analysis by empirical study. Through the analysis of the relationship between theme and rheme in the full text, we find that this text does not only apply a certain thematic progression pattern, but also applies more than one thematic progression pattern. Therefore, we come to the conclusion that thematic progression does exist in this news discourse and shows obvious characteristics and distribution. And also, parallel pattern and continuation pattern are frequently presented in this news discourse.
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Masuda, Hirokuni. "Tsr Formation as a Discourse Substratum in Hawaii Creole English." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10, no. 2 (January 1, 1995): 253–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.10.2.03mas.

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Hawaii Creole English presents a particular type of utterance structure, the "dollar utterance," which might be regarded as ill-formed in terms of the form-meaning coalition in Standard English (SE). Nonetheless, such an utterance seems to reflect an underlying discourse process in which three discourse representations — Theme, Scheme, Rheme — interact. An analysis is given within the framework of Schema theory to explain this unique linguistic phenomenon in Hawaii Creole English. The scheme, which is the most important entity of the three, resides either in the preceding text or in the abstract knowledge structure of human cognition. It is further claimed that the formation of Theme, Scheme, Rheme could have been transferred from Japanese as one of its substratum features in discourse. The probability of Japanese substratal influence is highly supportable from both linguistic and sociohistorical evidence.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Theme-rheme structure"

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Domínguez, Bajo Mónica. "The Information structure-prosody interface: on the role of hierarchical thematicity in an empirically-grounded model." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457143.

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This dissertation presents an empirical study on the information structure– prosody interface based on: (i) a formal description of hierarchical thematicity within a systematic language model for natural language generation within the Meaning-Text Theory; and (ii) two approaches to prosodic representation, namely, ToBI labels and acoustic parameters. A corpus of read speech by twelve native speakers of American English is used to test the viability to approach prosody generation in synthesized speech from a communicative perspective. To this end, statistical, classification and implementation experiments are carried out. The main technical contribution consists in two tools: a data-driven module for thematicitybased prosody enrichment in a speech synthesizer and an automatic prosody tagger developed under an extension of Praat for feature annotation. Results prove that thematicity spans have distinct prosodic characteristics, as previously suggested in theoretical studies, and that a tripartite hierarchical thematicity is a more appropriate representation of information structure than traditional binary flat thematicity approaches for its integration in speech technologies.
Esta tesis presenta un estudio empírico de la interfaz estructura informativa– prosodia basado en: (i) una descripción formal de la tematicidad jerárquica que se enmarca en un modelo del lenguaje sistemático para la generación automática del lenguaje natural dentro del marco de la Teoría Sentido-Texto; y (ii) dos representaciones prosódicas utilizando etiquetas ToBI y parámetros acústicos. Se emplea un corpus de habla leída por doce hablantes nativos de inglés americano para comprobar la validez de la generación de prosodia en síntesis de voz a partir de características comunicativas. Con este objectivo, se presentan experimentos estadísticos, de clasificación y de implementación. La principal contribución técnica consiste en dos herramientas: un módulo basado en datos para el enriquecimiento prosódico de voz sintética a partir de la tematicidad y un etiquetador automático de prosodia implementado en una extensión de Praat para la anotación de características lingüísticas. Los resultados demuestran que los segmentos de tematicidad están caracterizados por rasgos prosódicos distintivos, como se había sugerido en estudios teóricos previos y que la tematicidad tripartita jerárquica es una representación más adecuada de la estructura informativa que las anteriores propuestas tradicionales de tematicidad binaria plana para su integración en las tecnologías del habla.
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Zikmundová, Kateřina. "Vyjádření pasívní perspektivy v současné francouzštině." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-333522.

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(in English): The objective of the thesis is to give a definition of passive perspective and to describe how passive perspective can be expressed in modern French. Follows an analysis of French passive constructions in different types of texts from various communicative fields. As the thesis reveals, the expression of passive perspective in modern French is not limited to periphrastic passive. Passive perspective can be expressed also by reflexive passive, secondary passive constructions se faire, se laisser and se voir and by nominal passive. The analysis showed that these means of expression of passive perspective can be found in both journalistic and specialized texts.
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Books on the topic "Theme-rheme structure"

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Nauk, Polska Akademia. Structure Theme-Rheme Dan les Langues Roanes et Slaves. Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1988.

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Fukuda, Kazuo. Theme-rheme structure: A functional approach to English and Japanese. Niigata, Japan: Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture, Niigata University, 2006.

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Grosz, Patrick G. Information Structure and Discourse Particles. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.36.

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Focusing on German as its object language, this chapter explores the interactions between discourse particles (e.g.ja, doch) and information structure. The first half of the chapter explores the traditional idea that discourse particles form awatershedbetween thematic (old) and rhematic (new) information. Concerning the ‘theme’, it is argued that unstressed elements to the left of discourse particles (in the ‘middle field’ between C0 and the verbal complex) must be aboutness topics. Concerning the ‘rheme’, it is shown that the focus exponent generally has to follow discourse particles. The second half of the chapter discusses current issues relating to the interactions of discourse particles and focus. Specifically, it investigates ‘relational’ discourse particles (e.g.dochandschon), which operate on a contextually salient alternative propositionq, giving rise to a discussion of the potential role that focus may play in the interpretation of such particles.
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Book chapters on the topic "Theme-rheme structure"

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Paducheva, Elena V. "Theme-rheme structure." In Discourse and Meaning, 273. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.78.27pad.

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Harlig, Jeffrey, and Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig. "Accentuation typology, word order and theme-rheme structure." In Typological Studies in Language, 125. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tsl.17.11har.

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Xi, Xue-feng, and Guodong Zhou. "A Micro-topic Model for Coreference Resolution Based on Theme-Rheme Structure." In Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications, 648–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50496-4_58.

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Dickins, James. "Signs, syntax, para-syntax, theme and rheme." In Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study, 5–24. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429351150-2.

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Carls, Uwe. "The Function of Role Types in Unmarked Theme- Rheme Structures." In Proceedings / Anglistentag 1995 Greifswald, edited by Jürgen Klein and Vanderbeke Dirk. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783111714141-013.

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"Standardisierte Wörterbuchartikel des allgemeinen einsprachigen Wörterbuches als Texte: Probleme der Kohärenz und der Thema-Rhema-Struktur Standardized Entries and Their Textual Cohesion: Problems of the Theme-Rheme Structure Entrées standardisées: problèmes de cohésion textuelle et de structure thème/rhème." In Wörterbücher / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires, Part 1, edited by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, and Ladislav Zgusta. Berlin • New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110095852.1.5.946.

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LaPolla, Randy J. "Arguments for Seeing Theme-Rheme and Topic-Comment as Separate Functional Structures *." In Systemic Functional Language Description, 162–86. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351184533-6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Theme-rheme structure"

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Miranda, Henreitta D. "Looking into Theme-Rheme Structure through Demand Letters as Collection Instrument." In International Conference on Education. The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17501/24246700.2019.5112.

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Yanko, T. E. "RUSSIAN ADVERB DAVNO ‚LONG AGO, FOR A LONG TIME‘ REVISITED FROM A CORPUS PERSPECTIVE." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-773-783.

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During the last twenty years, the Russian adverb davno ‘long ago, for a long time’ was widely discussed in literature. It was recognized that the unique parameter of davno is its inability to be the theme of a sentence. Moreover, if davno functions in the context of aspectual forms relating to the past it can only be the rheme. In the context of the aspectual verbal forms relating to the past but preserving the connection with the moment of speech, davno can be either the rheme proper, or a component of the rheme. A classic example of an aspectual verb form referring to the past is the general factual meaning of the imperfective aspect. At present, the spoken data corpora can shed light on the communicative structure analysis, since the prosodic structure of the sound speech provides a straightforward access to the communicative structure. Novel parameters of davno are as follows. 1) Whereas davno is traditionally recognized as a word of rhematic polarity it can nevertheless function as a component of the theme in the context of attributive clauses and constructions (Davno soglasovannyj visit dolzhen byl sostojatjsja v aprele ‘A visit planned long ago would take place in April’). 2) The general factual meaning of the imperfective aspect, contrary to what was assumed before, is not an absolute prerequisite for davno to function as the rheme. The spoken corpus showed that in the context of negation and in the context of the verbs of speech, the general factual allows for davno to function as a component of the rheme but not the rheme proper (Ja davno tebja ne videl ‘I have not been seeing you for a long time’; My davno govorili, chto nasha zadacha — eto borjba s terrorismom ‘We have been insisting for a long time that our main goal is the struggle against terrorism’). 3) A specific type of questions with the initial davno (as well as with other adverbs with the meaning of a considerable quantity like chasto ‘often’, mnogo ‘much’, and daleko ‘far away’) is singled out. Such questions cannot be unambiguously classified either as yes-no-questions or as wh-questions (I davno vy zdesj stoite? ‘And how long are you staying here?’). A description of unique prosody of such questions is given. 4) In the context of discourse continuity, davno acquires the rising prosody which is in fact uncharacteristic of a word, which is unable be the theme (Xotel eto sdelat’ davno, no teperj sdelaju tochno ‘I wished to do it long ago, but now I will do it for sure’). The rising tone is accounted for by the meaning of continuity, which has the same prosody as the theme. 5) In constructions kogda-to davno ‘once upon a time’, ochenj davno ‘very long ago’, davno-davno ‘very long ago’, davnymdavno ‘very long ago’, dovoljno davno ‘quite long ago’, ne tak davno ‘not so long ago’ davno loses its rhematic polarity. The parameters of davno are exemplified by spoken fragments taken from the Multimodal corpus of the Russian National corpus, and the minor working collection of the Russian speech recordings specifically set up for this investigation. The software program Praat was used in the process of analyzing the sound data.
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