Abstract
The present paper deals with Czech constructions with the splitting of the theme and dictum. They are realized by some classes of verbs of communication and verbs that express mental actions.
The characteristic feature of these constructions lies in the fact that one of their participants ? the participant message ? occupies two valency slots. In the present contribution, syntactic properties, especially valency characteristics, of these constructions are of our main interest.
However, both morphological and semantic features have to be taken into account within their description. Finally, these constructions deserve close attention with regard to coreference relations.
On the basis of the corpus evidence, we demonstrate that the theme represents an antecendent to which the coreferring expression(s) that is a part of the dictum refers. In principle, two kinds of coreference occur in the examined constructions: (i) textual and (ii) 'content' coreference.
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