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The main objective of the article is to create a typology of verbs according to their semantic features. The most general features that define the verb are examined and described in terms of the three components of its functional-semantic value: intension, extension and implication. At the same time, the study tries to reveal the relationship between the semantic structure of the verbs and their function in the sentence. Through this objective, he goes beyond the level of isolated words by analysing the manifestation of verbs in the structure of the statement. Considering the role of the verb in the constitution and functioning of the utterance, we should admit that the establishment of semantic features with relevance for their morphosyntactic behaviour could serve as an important factor for the functional-semantic description of utterances. In this way, the examination of the way in which the semantic categories are manifested in the syntactic plane would bring more light regarding the mechanism of the articulation of the semantic and syntactic levels in the act of communication.

The article contains a description of the informational structure of the sentence in its capacity as a layer of meaning constituted as an effect of its contextual updating. A complex phenomenon of a discursive nature, the informational structure of the utterance requires an interpretation of the facts of language by taking into account the interrelationship between the semantic, syntactic and discursive factors involved in the act of communication. The semantic-pragmatic specificity of the informational structure of the sentence is analysed starting from the extralinguistic factors that control it. Particular attention is paid to the distinctive features of the minimal units of this structure. The criteria for identifying the topic and the rhyme of a sentence are presented, with emphasis on the recognition of the units in question in the process of linguistic analysis. By examining this layer of meaning, our goal is to show that the Romanian language has a complex mechanism that allows its expression and variation in relation to other layers of meaning of the sentence.

The primary objective of this article is to establish and describe the discursive variants of the sentence representing its communicative paradigm. Constituted as a result of the adequacy of a sentence to communicative context, the discursive variants suppose, in linguistic terms, the variation of the informational structure of the sentence in relation to its semantic-syntactic structure. Described in terms of old/new information, the discursive variants are formed due to the operations involved in the discursive updating of the fundamental structures of the sentences, which are the thematisation and rhematisation of certain component elements of the sentence. The model that presents the sentence as a set of discursive variants combines semantic, syntactic and pragmatic or discursive criteria. Thus, in the process of analyzing these variants, the role of determining factors in the informational organization of the sentence was taken into account, these aspects being correlated with the marks of the informational structure of the sentence.