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    the fall of the communist regime in November 1989. Jan Firbas died on 5 May 2000 in Brno. Firbas developed a theory of Information Structure called Functional...
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  • Firbas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Firbas (1902–1964), German botanist Jan Firbas (1921–1945), Czech linguist This page...
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  • Libuše Dušková Jan Firbas Vilém Mathesius Aleš Svoboda Topic-comment Prague school (linguistics) Functional theories of grammar Firbas, J. (1957) "On...
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    on earlier linguists' work, Prague Circle linguists Vilém Mathesius, Jan Firbas and others elaborated the concept of theme–rheme relations (topic and...
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  • Shklovsky Emilio Alarcos Llorach [es] Michael Silverstein Jan Firbas Lubomír Doležel Austin Warren Jan Baudouin de Courtenay Louis Hjelmslev Jaroslav Vacek...
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  • theory of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP), developed mainly by Jan Firbas and his followers in the Prague School of Linguistics. CD is canonically...
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  • topic–focus articulation, has been studied mainly by Vilém Mathesius, Jan Firbas, František Daneš, Petr Sgall and Eva Hajičová. They have been concerned...
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  • Prague functional approach". Language and Function: To the Memory of Jan Firbas. John Benjamins. pp. 57–70. ISBN 9027215588. Retrieved 2023-06-03. MacWhinney...
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  • 33:456–500. Dušková, L. 2005, From the Heritage of Vilém Mathesius and Jan Firbas: Syntax in the Service of FSP. Theory and Practice in English Studies...
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    dichotomy, have grown out of Mathesius's writings through the work of Jan Firbas, František Daneš, Petr Sgall, and Eva Hajičová. Mathesius's ideas also...
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    theory of Functional Sentence Perspective viewed through the prism of Jan Firbas' approach. Libuše Dušková's interest in the study of languages, and English...
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  • Crystal, Derek Davy, Jan Firbas, Sidney Greenbaum, Liliane Haegeman, Robert Ilson, Ruth Kempson, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Rusiecki, Jan Svartvik, and Joe Taglicht...
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    Prešov (Slovakia). He was a disciple and close collaborator of Professor Jan Firbas and together with him a lead investigator of a theory of Information Structure...
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  • (1905–78) Y.M. Romance Philology Vol. 33, No. 2 (November 1979), pp. 328-333. Jan Firbas. 1962. “Notes on the function of the sentence in the act of communication:...
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  • congestive heart failure. Gino Bartali, 85, Italian racing cyclist. Jan Firbas, 79, Czech linguist. Don Kindt, 74, American football player. Rolf Magener...
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    Joel; Wyatt, Christopher D.R.; de Mendoza, Alex; Marlétaz, Ferdinand; Firbas, Panos N.; et al. (2020). "Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life...
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    For Central Europe, there were ten phases as a rule (according to Franz Firbas), which are called pollen zones and given Roman numerals as part of the...
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  • Vizueta, Joel; Wyatt, Christopher; de Mendoza, Alex; Marlétaz, Ferdinand; Firbas, Panos; Feuda, Roberto; Masiero, Giulio; Medina, Patricia; Alcaina-Caro...
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  • 1929–2014), syntax, lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, lexicography Firbas, Jan (Czech Republic, 1921–2000), English language, functional linguistics...
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    European plant experts like Heinz Ellenberg, Johannes Iversen and Franz Firbas. Apart from theoretical considerations, this concept has relied and continues...
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