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[edit] A unifying article on Information Structure

The best thing would be to unify the various articles on Information Structure (Topic-comment, Topic (linguistics), Focus (linguistics)) into a single one and then have various articles on individual theories (Vallduvi, [MAK Halliday]], Prague School, various theories in generative syntax). These theories have many things in common, but they also differ a lot.

[edit] Meaning of theme

This site is redirected to from "theme (linguistics)" but in that respect, I find this entry unsatisfactory. It doesn't really account well for the usage of theme with respect to thematic relations and theta roles. As per Carnie, "Entities that undergo actions, are moved, experienced or perceived are called themes." This is an admittedly vague, but nonetheless a very prominent and altogether different use of the term "theme." The disambiguation for theme really needs to account for this. 68.100.79.249 11:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

That is a different use of theme. The use of "theme" discussed in the present article is the original use of the term in linguistics from Ammann 1928. I added a note.--Jirka6 14:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)