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Information Structure with Aidan Aannestad

Conlangery Podcast

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The Different Types of Frame Setters

English is very happy to just like leave things there and let the prosodic prominence. In Japanese, for example, you can get two topic markers in a sentence because one of them is actually the frame setter. It's just reusing topic marking. I have seen an example of a language from the Amazon that seems to use focus marking instead as a way to do frame setters. But okay, sure, I guess you can do that. You could just totally use word or impocity like the same way I just did in English.

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