Information Structure

Focus is a grammatical category that determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information.

Natural language

In the UNLarium, focus may assume the following values:

{{#tree:id=foc|openlevels=0|root=Focus (FOC)|

• prominent (PRO): prominent
• theme (THE): topic
• rheme (RHE): comment

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UNL

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

{{#tree:id=unl_focus|openlevels=0|root=Focus|

• • @focus
  • @topic
  • @comment

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