Explore: Topic And Comment

linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic. This division

publish comments Comment (linguistics) or rheme, that which is said about the topic (theme) of a sentence Bernard Comment (born 1960), Swiss writer and publisher

A topic-prominent language is a language that organizes its syntax to emphasize the topic–comment structure of the sentence. The term is best known in

immediate context of the utterance, and topic is "the entity that a speaker identifies, about which then information, the comment, is given". Additional notions

dichotomy of topic and comment. In English traditional grammar types, three types of object are acknowledged: direct objects, indirect objects, and objects

emphasis on the item and can be used with words in other roles as well. Thus, the subject and the object are not always the topic and comment but often have

programming topic, such as before a symbol declaration or at the top of a file. An inline comment is a comment that is located on the same line as and to the

of no comment, stating that one of the goals of working with the press is to resolve issues before they become hot topics. Offering no comment allows

Secondary predicate Term logic Topic–comment Traditional grammar Verb See for instance College Dictionary (1993, p. 1077) and Merriam Webster (2004, p. 566)

description Markedness Moscow linguistic circle OPOJAZ Russian formalism Topic and comment Czech: Pražský lingvistický kroužek, Russian: Пражский лингвистический