''Vždyť useknete-li žížale ocas, měla by umřít, ale neumře, tělo jí doroste!'' - On Functional Sentence Perspective in External Possession Constructions.

Abstract

The article deals with the phenomenon of external possession and the role of information structure in this specific type of syntactic constructions. It is based on original empirical findings in the Czech National Corpus.

Keywords

• information structure
• external possession
• dative
• syntax