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</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Lingtyp,<span></span></span></font></p><font size="4">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am looking for examples where topic markers or focus
markers in some language are clearly members of some broad morphosyntactic
category.<span></span></span></font></p><font size="4">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Let me give an example involving negatives of the sort of thing
that I am looking for. Negative elements in various languages are often members
of a broader category: in Estonian negative particles are auxiliaries, in
Tongan they are complement-taking verbs, in English they are adverbs, and so
on.<span></span></span></font></p><font size="4">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So what I am looking for are parallel examples with topic and
focus markers: cases where a reasonable analysis would assign them to some
broader category.<span></span></span></font></p><font size="4">

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</font><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"><br>Frederick J. Newmeyer<br>Professor Emeritus, University of Washington<br></font></div><font size="4">Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U</font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>