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• Topic
  ...that is being talked about ([[Predication|predicated]]). Once stated, the topic is therefore "old news", i.e. the things already mentioned and understood. :::*''"An entity E is the topic of a sentence, S, iff in using S the speaker intends to increase the addres
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• Thetic vs. categorical
  ...structure]] studies for topicless, all-new sentences and sentences with a topic. *Ladusaw William. 1994. Thetic and Categorical, Stage and Individual, Weak and Strong. in: Mandy Harvey and Lynn Santelmann (eds.
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• Future tense
  ...'future tense''' can be regarded as a [[tense]] which indicates that the [[topic time]] is located after the [[moment of speech]] (cf. Klein 1994). ...mary markers of future time reference. Those markers represent an advanced stage of grammaticalization (Dahl 2000: 325).
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