Chapter 6. Concept linking, topic, comment and focusing

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Chapter 6
Concept linking, topic, comment and focusing

Published online: 26 July 2017

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6.1Introductory remarks on the influence of conceptual salience and informational prominence
6.2Topic and comment in concept-linking
- 6.2.1The narrow interpretation challenged: Topic and comment only as subject and predicate?
- 6.2.2The wide interpretation: Topic and comment in attribution and perspectivizing
6.3Introducing focusing
6.4Positional focusing
- 6.4.1Positional focusing and the focus potential of VMCs
- 6.4.2Positional focusing, scene-setting and circumstancing
- 6.4.3Complex focusing and scene-setting constructions (cleft sentences)
6.5Perspectival focusing
- 6.5.1Focusing adverbs, perspectival and positional focusing
- 6.5.2Perspectival focusing vs. scope
- 6.5.3Focus dominance vs. scope dominance in perspectivizing
- 6.5.4Scope and focus of connective adverbs
- 6.5.5Scope and focus of not-negation
  - [1] not-negation parallels emphasizer and focusing adverbs
  - [2]not-negation parallels frequency adverbs
  - [3] not-negation parallels degree adverbs
- 6.5.6Scope and focus of TAM phenomena and sentence modes
6.6Postscript on the role of given and new
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