Note sur les articulations de la linéarité phrastique

• Main Author: Rostislav Kocourek
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice 2012-09-01
• Series: Echo des Etudes Romanes
• Subjects: sentence linearity (in time and space); sentence structuring (sentence articulation); word order (ordinary structuring; ordinary articulation); Prague School of Linguistics; actual sentence articulation; functional sentence perspective (FSP); poetic structuring (Virgil’s hexameter); stylistics
• Online Access: http://www.eer.cz/files/2012-1/2012-1-06-Kocourek.pdf
• ISSN: 1801-0865; 1804-8358

The term structuring is here used as an equivalent of various meanings of terms sentence perspective or sentence articulation found in terms Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP), or Actual Sentence Articulation, or in phrases used in the present paper as l’articulation ordinaire or l’articulation poétique.The introductory sections of the paper deal with the typological and diachronic aspects of word order, and with the proposal to use permutation as a promising procedure preparing to obtain a complete list of meaningful sequences to be further explored. There is also a brief note on contextuality, on the spoken and written norms of language and on the poetic and specialized languages/styles, all as related to word order.The FSP is seen as one type of structuring sentence linearity. As such, the FSP is considered to be an important, more recent parallel to the contemporary varieties of what is here called ordinary structuring (articulation), i.e. types of grammatical subject-predicate structuring (articulation). In contrast to ‘ordinary’ approaches, the FSP structuring is supported by communicatively oriented pragma-psycho-linguistic foundations, i.e. using key terms like situation of communication, addresser intention, addressee response, etc. That is why the next step is to compare the two conceptions (FSP and ordinary structuring). The main result of the comparison is the parallel nature of the two : They share texts to analyze and, to do so, they use different principles and terminologies (see the table of terms in section 8). The successful contemporary development of FSP, as well as its pioneerig steps in the pre-1945 period, have been made mainly by Prague linguists, who, together with a number of interested scholars from abroad, work out its theory trying to make of it a standard component of syntactic research. The problem of a certain tension between the original Praguian functional-structural and later communicative approach motivates some programs planning to elaborate a closer synthesis of the two.Since a hexameter was used as an important example for word order analysis and, mainly, because it is felt that poetic structuring of sentences is an intriguing theoretical problem, the final section of the paper, in a sort of appendix, is devoted to a look at the specific structuring of Virgil’s hexameter in book VIII, verse 596 of the Aeneid.