Abstract
Abstract The objective of the present paper is to point out the existence of a principle governing the ordering of a sentence's major constituents (Section 1). This principle is closely related to the pragmatically based (though linguistically structured) topic-focus articulation of the (meaning of a) sentence, and therefore we also mention the operational tests used to analyze this articulation and characterize the semantic relevance of topic and focus, and of the communicative dynamism (CD) (section 2). We show how these phenomena can be economically described on the basis of Chomsky's theta theory, if the ordering principle is treated by the categorial component (Section 3).
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