Re: Focus, interrogatives
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 2, 1999, 15:00 |
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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."
Matt.
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Matt Pearson
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