英語テクストの結束性を高めるための語順：副詞的な要素の分析

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the appropriate position of adverbial group within a sentence to heighten the cohesion of text or discourse. In general, adverbial group is very different from the other sentence elements, that is, subject, verb, object and complement, and they are the most peripheral of all the clause elements, and are heterogeneous category. Consequently, grammarians have generally not paid much attention to the position of adverbial group, importantly. Halliday (1994) and Halliday and Hasan (1976) studies from the viewpoint of text or discourse, accordingly, we need consider as the position of adverbial group from the point of view of heightening the cohesion of text or discourse. Moreover, we examine the relationship between the degree of cohesion and the position of adverbial group in text, using written text, and apply the Theme-Rheme relationship to our analysis at the same time.