INDEFINITE ARTICLE AS RHEME ACTUALIZATION MEANS IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE
Khlabutina Lyubov' Alekseevna
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Abstract. Constructions with prepositive (in the position before predicate) rhematic subject in scientific and technical literature functional style are researched. Indefinite article use productivity as rheme distinguishing factor and its correlation with definite and zero article in this function are analyzed.
Key words and phrases: рематическое подлежащее, критерии ремы, прямой порядок слов, научная и техническая литература, актуальное членение предложения, артикль, rhematic subject, rheme criteria, direct word order, scientific and technical literature, sentence actual segmentation, article
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