Information Structure

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'''Focus''' is a grammatical category that determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information.
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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 ==  
 
== Natural language ==  
In the UNLarium, focus may assume the following values:
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In the UNLarium, the information structure may assume the following values:
  
{{#tree:id=foc|openlevels=0|root=Focus (FOC)|
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{{#tree:id=foc|openlevels=0|root=Information Structure (IST)|
*prominent (PRO): prominent
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*focus (FOC): focus
 
*theme (THE): topic
 
*theme (THE): topic
 
*rheme (RHE): comment
 
*rheme (RHE): comment
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In UNL, focus is to be represented by the following attributes.  
 
In UNL, focus is to be represented by the following attributes.  
  
{{#tree:id=unl_focus|openlevels=0|root=Focus|
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{{#tree:id=unl_focus|openlevels=0|root=Information Structure (IST)|
 
**@focus
 
**@focus
 
**@topic
 
**@topic
 
**@comment
 
**@comment
 
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Revision as of 20:10, 20 May 2013

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:

UNL

In UNL, focus is to be represented by the following attributes.

Software