焦點 (語言學)

焦點（縮寫為：foc）是一種語法的類別，用於確定句子的哪一部分能夠提供新的、不可推導的或對比的信息。焦點與有關。對比焦點尤其是指與的前提相反之信息編碼。

相關詞條包括評論以及述位(Rheme)。

參見
*主題與評論
*话题优先语言
*c-command

註釋
參考文獻
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*Xu, Y., C. X. Xu and X. Sun (2004). 'On the temporal domain of focus'. In Proceedings of International Conference on Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan: 81-84.