Аналитичните глаголни форми и прозодията като средство за изразяване на функционалната изреченска перспектива в английския и българския

The English finite verb analytical forms are examined in contrast with Bulgarian and some structural, semantic and diachronic differences are presented. The temporal and modal meaning of the English verb structure is explicated in an independent word which can be used successfully as a common ground for a contrastive study of prosody as a functional sentence perspective marker. The highly functional prosody of the English analytical verb structure is found to correspond to two Bulgarian prosodic patterns which conform to the Bulgarian norms of accentuation. This falls into line with the role of intonation in the two contrasted languages.