Common Contracts
1 similar N/A contracts
License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenN/A • June 25th, 2020
This chapter is concerned with how information is presented and organized within a discourse and, at a simpler level, the sentences of a discourse. As pointed out in §11.4, information structure plays a key role in the alignment of constituents in a clause. There is an apparent preference for Topics to appear to the left of the verb and focused constituents to the right of the verb, a general tendency observable in many of Nchane’s topic and focus construction types, as will be seen in the sections below.
