• linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic. This division...
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  • A topic-prominent language is a language that organizes its syntax to emphasize the topiccomment structure of the sentence. The term is best known in...
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  • publish comments Comment (linguistics) or rheme, that which is said about the topic (theme) of a sentence Bernard Comment (born 1960), Swiss writer and publisher...
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  • immediate context of the utterance, and topic is "the entity that a speaker identifies, about which then information, the comment, is given". Additional notions...
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  • dichotomy of topic and comment. In English traditional grammar types, three types of object are acknowledged: direct objects, indirect objects, and objects...
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  • of no comment, stating that one of the goals of working with the press is to resolve issues before they become hot topics. Offering no comment allows...
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    programming topic, such as before a symbol declaration or at the top of a file. An inline comment is a comment that is located on the same line as and to the...
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  • Predicate (grammar) (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    Secondary predicate Term logic Topiccomment Traditional grammar Verb See for instance College Dictionary (1993, p. 1077) and Merriam Webster (2004, p. 566)...
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  • interlocutor. The topiccomment model distinguishes between the topic (theme) and what is being said about that topic (the comment, rheme, or focus)....
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  • semantic concept distinct from the subject of a sentence as well as from the topic. While the subject is determined syntactically, primarily through word order...
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  • Mandarin (and Cantonese) verbs as a whole behave the same way. Later, Li et al. (1981) introduced middle voice sentences as examples of topic/comment constructions...
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    Singlish (category Articles containing English-based creoles and pidgins-language text)
    comment (or new information). This contrasts with Standard English, which is subject-prominent and thus the semantic relationship between topic and comment...
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  • existential verbs iru and aru are used instead (with the possessed as the verb's subject and the possessor as the sentence's topic: uchi wa imōto ga iru...
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  • Ken's comments are usually benign, with his comments displaying a comical lack of understanding of the featured topic, while other commenters take him...
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  • forms to post unsolicited advertisements as comments on forums, blogs, wikis and online guestbooks. Related topics include: Forum spam, posts on Internet forums...
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  • objects in some structures, word order distinguishes given and new information, topic and comment affixes do not indicate case of noun phrases verb affixes...
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  • particular situations where the VS and OV word orders appear. Topic-and-comment constructions are often used. Neither a topic, nor the subject nor objects are...
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  • description Markedness Moscow linguistic circle OPOJAZ Russian formalism Topic and comment Czech: Pražský lingvistický kroužek, Russian: Пражский лингвистический...
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  • not considered to be the grammatical subject, but can be described as the topic of the sentence. While these definitions apply to simple English sentences...
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    subforums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread and can be replied to by as many people...
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  • state Article (grammar) Topiccomment Specificity Lambrecht, Knud (1996). Information structure and sentence form : topic, focus, and the mental representations...
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  • example, a topic is introduced, in this case "I", with the topic particle wa (は). The animate noun is again marked with a subject particle, and no location...
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  • Manglish (category Articles containing English-based creoles and pidgins-language text)
    conversation), followed by a comment (or new information). Compared to Standard English, the semantic relationship between topic and comment is not important; moreover...
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  • Tai languages, Vietnamese and Miao, while in Chinese varieties and Yao most modifiers are placed before the noun. Topic-comment organization is also common...
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    with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topiccomment. Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or...
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    Firbas and others elaborated the concept of theme–rheme relations (topic and comment) to study pragmatic concepts such as sentence focus, and givenness...
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  • Look up no comment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "No comment" is a phrase used to avoid answering questions from journalists. No Comment may also...
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  • (request for comments memoranda). A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting...
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  • Martin Carthy (album) (category Topic Records albums)
    re-issue for Record Store Day 18 April 2015 by Topic records 12TS2015 "Mainly Norfolk album details Comment about contractual restrictions". Retrieved 11...
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  • discourse. Language 69, 274–307. Gundel, Jeanette K. (1988). The role of topic and comment in linguistic theory. New York. ISBN 0-8240-5185-8. OCLC 18221964...
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