In our present corpus-based case study we focus our attention on the issue of local coherence as established by links between the thematic (Topic) and rhematic (Focus) parts of sentences.
we want to verify if the classical observations valid for English as a language with a grammatically fixed word order, namely that there is a prevailance of "constant theme" (based on Mathesius´ 1947 study on the thematicity and "continuity" of English subject, and further analyzed esp.