Topic-focus articulation

• contextual boundness

  • main verb CB/NB (T/F)
  • dependents to the left/right

• communicative dynamism

  • left-right (mother, sisters, transitive)
  • partial ordering

• underlying word order

  • left-right
  • linear ordering

left-to-right order of nodes together with the index T or (prototypically) F indicates the TFA of the sentence (of the TR)

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