英语主位分析中的两点新议

Two Challenges to Theme Analysis

主位是系统功能语法中表示语篇纯理功能的一个重要概念,在语篇中起着重要的穿针引线作用。本文依据主位分析理论,重点讨论两种小句的主位分析方法,即therebe存在过程小句和含有非连续性后置成分的小句。在分析、比较诸多学者观点的基础之上提出了作者自己的看法:therebe小句中therebe充当主位成分;在含有非连续性后置成分的小句中,做主语的代词和后置成分一起做非连续性主位。

Theme is an extremely important concept of the textual metafunction in Systemic Functional Grammar. The paper focuses on the theme analyses of the two kinds of clauses: the existential process clause realized by 'there be' and the clause with the discontinuous postposition. Based on the comparison and analyses of opinions by several distinguished functional scholars, we put forward some revised innovative ideas : 'there be' performs as theme in existential clauses; pronouns filling in slots together with discontinuous postposition elements function as Theme in such clauses .