Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Tables xiii
4. List of Figures xv
5. Abbreviations and Conventions xvii
6. Acknowledgements xxi
7. Foreword xxiii
8. Part I. The Theme — Topic Interface
9. 1. Introduction 3
10. 2. An Evaluation of Three Interpretations of Communicative Categories 15
11. Part II. Previous Studies: A Sympathetic Critique
12. 3. The Prague School 61
13. 4. Systemic Functional Grammar 89
14. 5. Functional Grammar 139
15. Part III. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Syntactic Theme in PresE
16. 6. Theory and Methods 173
17. 7. Results and Discussion 211
18. 8. Summary, Conclusions and Further Research 347
19. Appendix 359
20. Notes 363
21. References 381
22. Name Index 425
23. Subject Index 429