ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter we have considered the notion of focus in detail. We have seen that focus and accent do not always correlate, and we have pointed out that cases of accented topics in English should not be considered focused topics. We suggested that accent can also mark a topic relation and .showed that the type of accent that topics get is different from focus-related accent. In addition, there is a preposing mechanism, which has been claimed to involve the preposing of a topical focus: Focus Preposing (FP). In this chapter I am going to consider this construction in detail, explore different possibilities regarding its informational articulation, and suggest that FP should not be considered the preposing of a topical focus.
