The Different Types of Focus

In multiple languages, if you ask people to remember the participants in a discussion, they're much more likely to remember things that were focused. So not only are we producing focus pretty easily, but we are primed to attend to it and to remember it. And such. You mentioned that, okay, salience can be one thing, novelty. That's, that very commonly gets different sort of grammar,. Like exactly introducing new discourse topics into a conversation is usually handled in all sorts of funny ways. For example, and most of us don't think about this, a sentence like a man helped me cross the street yesterday is extremely unusual. It seems perfectly grammatical. Why is it unusual?