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Information Structure with Aidan Aannestad

Conlangery Podcast

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How to Mark Topic and Focus in Your Conlang

There's three kind of fundamental options and then a fourth semi option. So it's basically just like you're likely to get focused marking on a question word. You can do it with prosody, which is a very common thing in other languages. English does it for contrastive topics. Or you can have more fall, more philogical marking, which English doesn't have,. But you have other languages to do this. That's a good example off the top of my head; I feel like this is stupid because I wrote a master's thesis about this.

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