Fawcett (2010: 262):
However, discontinuity is most frequently the result of various types of thematisation. Thus in Who were you seen by? the completive (cv) who is an element of the discontinuous prepositional group by [...] who. …
Thus the present theory of syntax provides for all types of discontinuity. See Fawcett (in press) for a fuller account of the various types of discontinuity that occur in English.
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[1] To be clear, as previously observed, in Fawcett's model, Subject is always conflated with Theme (p149), and the only structural representation that includes Theme (p148) only presents this conflation:
In SFL Theory, the Theme of the clause Who were you seen by? is the Complement of a prepositional phrase (Fawcett's cv), but the Subject is not Theme:
cf.
[2] To be clear, another type of discontinuity, not discussed here, but like all types, motivated by the textual metafunction, occurs in medio-receptive clauses:
[3] As previously noted, Fawcett (in press) is still unpublished, 21 years after the first edition of this publication.
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