The document discusses the concept of topic and comment in linguistics. It states that the topic of a sentence is what is being talked about, while the comment is what is said about the topic. While it is generally agreed that information in a clause is divided into topic and comment, the exact boundary between the two depends on the grammatical theory used.
The document discusses the concept of topic and comment in linguistics. It states that the topic of a sentence is what is being talked about, while the comment is what is said about the topic. While it is generally agreed that information in a clause is divided into topic and comment, the exact boundary between the two depends on the grammatical theory used.
The document discusses the concept of topic and comment in linguistics. It states that the topic of a sentence is what is being talked about, while the comment is what is said about the topic. While it is generally agreed that information in a clause is divided into topic and comment, the exact boundary between the two depends on the grammatical theory used.
sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic. That the information structure of a clause is divided in this way is generally agreed on, but the boundary between topic/theme depends on grammatical theory.