Verb Complementation in Instructional Texts

Abstract

This Bachelor Thesis examines the role and application of verb complementation within a comparative analysis of two distinctive types of instructional texts. The theoretical part follows the general stylistic principles upon which instructional writing style is built and formulates syntactic properties of verb with a particular focus on its complementation. In the analytical part, this theoretical framework is juxtaposed with the syntactic behaviour of verb in recipes and patient information leaflets. In this manner, the thesis aims to determine the relation between stylistic functions and syntactic structure in instructional writing, as well as to specify syntactic and stylistic distinctions between two subgenres of this text type.