linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic. This division...
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publish comments Comment (linguistics) or rheme, that which is said about the topic (theme) of a sentence Bernard Comment (born 1960), Swiss writer and publisher...
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Information structure (redirect from Hanging topic)
immediate context of the utterance, and topic is "the entity that a speaker identifies, about which then information, the comment, is given". Additional notions...
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A topic-prominent language is a language that organizes its syntax to emphasize the topic–comment structure of the sentence. The term is best known in...
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dichotomy of topic and comment. In English traditional grammar types, three types of object are acknowledged: direct objects, indirect objects, and objects...
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of no comment, stating that one of the goals of working with the press is to resolve issues before they become hot topics. Offering no comment allows...
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forms to post unsolicited advertisements as comments on forums, blogs, wikis and online guestbooks. Related topics include: Forum spam, posts on Internet forums...
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Ken's comments are usually benign, with his comments displaying a complete lack of understanding of the featured topic, while other commenters take him...
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Predicate (grammar) (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
Secondary predicate Term logic Topic–comment Traditional grammar Verb See for instance College Dictionary (1993, p. 1077) and Merriam Webster (2004, p. 566)...
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discourse. Language 69, 274–307. Gundel, Jeanette K. (1988). The role of topic and comment in linguistic theory. New York. ISBN 0-8240-5185-8. OCLC 18221964...
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