Re: Focus, interrogatives

At 8:00 am -0700 2/6/99, Matt Pearson wrote:
>Ray Brown wrote (among many other things):
>
>>I think it gets confusing thinking around focus and comment.  They are two
>>separate idea.  'Comment' contrasts with 'topic' and is simply what is
>>topic.  'focus' is found, if the sentence has one, as part of the comment:
>>the part that focusses our attention on new info.
>
>Potentially confusing typo here:  The second sentence should read "Comment
>contrasts with topic and is simply what is NOT the topic."
OOPS!!

You're right.

Mea culpa  :=(

Thanks for spotting it,
Ray.