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• Topic-comment-distinction
  ...e authors identify this distinction with the distinction between focus and presupposition or theme and rheme. * Jackendoff, R. 1972. ''Semantic interpretation in generative grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Focus (information structure)
  ...given utterance context, is seen as the element of information whereby the presupposition and the assertion DIFFER from each other. The focus is that portion of a pr *Jackendoff, Ray. 1972. ''Semantic interpretation in generative grammar.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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• Cohesion
  Cohesion in its broadest sense is “a semantic relation between an element in [a] text and some other element that is cruc ...ings”, but it is also possible to say that “reference is a relation on the semantic level” (HALLIDAY & HASAN 1994: 89). It is basically a relation, “which
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  ...entice Hall, 1970), 514-33. German translation appears in F. Kiefer (ed.), Semantic und generative Grammatik (Frankfurt, Athenäum, 1972), ...ge. Lg. 46.286-99. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:211-28, in P. Seuren (ed.), Semantic Syntax (Oxford: Clarendon, 1974), 74-95, and in D. Davidson and G. Harman (
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