Firbas developed a theory of Functional Sentence Perspective ( FSP ), inspired by the work of Vil�m Mathesius.
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It is Jan Firbas who is to be credited with the first use of the term Functional Sentence Perspective.
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Kuno is known for his discourse-functionalist approach to syntax known as functional sentence perspective and for his analysis of the syntax of scrambling.
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He was a disciple and close collaborator of Professor Jan Firbas and together with him a lead investigator of a theory of Functional Sentence Perspective ( FSP ), inspired by the work of Vil�m Mathesius.
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Firbas's most diligent disciple was Alea Svoboda, with whom he closely collaborated especially in the 1970s and 1980s on the development and refinement of the key concepts in the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective.
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He wrote many papers on the topic, two monographs and 50 encyclopedic entries describing FSP . His most important contribution to the development of the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective was its application to the subclausal level.
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Within Czech linguistics the Czech calque of the English term Functional Sentence Perspective "'funk n?vtn?perspektiva "'is nowadays used to refer to the approach stemming from the writings of Jan Firbas and his followers, while the original Mathesius Czech term "'aktu�ln?lenn?vtn?"'tends to be associated with the group of linguists developing the Topic-Focus Articulation, i . e . Petr Sgall, Eva Haji ov? Jarmila Panevov?and their disciples, despite the fact that both terms are still sometimes used interchangeably in some Czech contributions to the topic of information structure of language . ( Cf.
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