4Notions
adopted from FGD:
–contextual boundness --primary
cases:
•[+CB] items constitute topic
•[-CB] items constitute focus
•topic precedes focus
–systemic ordering
•“default” ordering of complementations
•language specific
e.g. in Czech:
Actor < Locative < Means < Patient < Cause,
•possibly specific to classes of verbs etc.
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