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...

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...

readers to publish comments Comment (linguistics) or rheme, that which is said about the topic (theme) of a sentence Bernard Comment (born 1960), Swiss...

Chinese varieties and Yao most modifiers are placed before the noun. Topic-comment organization is also common. Languages of both eastern and southeast...

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...

marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment. Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact...

always so consistently as in languages like Chinese. In spoken Khmer, topic-comment structure is common, and the perceived social relation between participants...

different topic-comment structures. The topic usually has a rising intonation, the focus having a falling intonation. In the following examples, the topic is...

forms to post unsolicited advertisements as comments on forums, blogs, wikis and online guestbooks. Related topics include: Forum spam, posts on Internet forums...

a topic-comment structure, where the known information (topic) precedes the new information (comment). Because of the strict SVO syntax, the topic of...