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...

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

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...

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

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...

forms to post unsolicited advertisements as comments on forums, blogs, wikis and online guestbooks. Related topics include: Forum spam, posts on Internet forums...

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

Mandarin (and Cantonese) verbs as a whole behave the same way. Later, Li et al. (1981) introduced middle voice sentences as examples of topic/comment constructions...

comment (or new information). This contrasts with Standard English, which is subject-prominent and thus the semantic relationship between topic and comment...