The volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. LibuSe DuSkovA focuses on the two facets of functional sentence perspective: syntactic structures as carriers of informational structure functions and the connection of functional sentence perspective within the level of text. Functional sentence perspective is investigated as a potential factor of syntactic divergence between English and Czech, and the role of functional sentence perspective is examined with respect to theme...