Information Structure
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Information Structure describes the way in which information is formally packaged within a sentence, often focusing on the ways in which topic-comment structures are used to make particular parts of information stand out as particularly salient in relation to others.
Natural language
In the UNLarium, the information structure may assume the following values:
{{#tree:id=foc|openlevels=0|root=Information Structure (IST)|
- focus (FOC): focus
- theme (THE): topic
- rheme (RHE): comment
}}
UNL
In UNL, focus is to be represented by the following attributes.
{{#tree:id=unl_focus|openlevels=0|root=Information Structure (IST)|
- @focus
- @topic
- @comment
}}
