Topic-focus articulation

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Topic-focus articulation is a field of study in linguistics. It is concerned with the means of marking the old and new information in a clause.

[edit] See also

• Topic (linguistics)
• Focus (linguistics)
• Eva Hajičová
• Petr Sgall
• Barbara Partee

[edit] References

Eva Hajičová Barbara H. Partee and Petr Sgall, Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 71. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998. ix + 216 pp. review