Information Structure

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Information Structure describes the way in which information is formally packaged within a sentence, often focusing on the ways in which topic-comment structures are used to make particular parts of information stand out as particularly salient in relation to others.

Natural language

In the UNLarium, the information structure may assume the following values:

Information Structure (IST)
focus (FOC): focus
theme (THE): topic
rheme (RHE): comment

UNL

In UNL, the information structure is represented by the following attributes:

Information Structure (IST)
@focus
@topic
@comment

Software