He was a disciple and close collaborator of Professor Jan Firbas and together with him a lead investigator of a theory of Information Structure of language called Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP), inspired by the work of Vilém Mathesius.
Firbas developed a theory of Information Structure called Functional Sentence Perspective, inspired by the work of Vilém Mathesius.
Vilém Mathesius | Vilém Mrštík | Vilém Kurz | Vilém Gajdušek |
In the Prague school, the dichotomy, termed topic–focus articulation, has been studied mainly by Vilém Mathesius, Jan Firbas, František Daneš, Petr Sgall and Eva Hajičová.