cofocus
nounEtymology From co- + focus.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences An element in a clause, sentence, etc. that acts as the focus, or main element, in combination with another such element.
- In general, the expression in focus is a predicate, which applies to something which is defined by the cofocus.1987, Imre Ruzsa, Anna Szabolcsi, Proceedings of the '87 Debrecen Symposium on Logic and Language:
- Not all cofoci are presuppositions; sometimes the cofocus is new information "accommodated" to the common ground which is introduced as though it were presupposed[…]2000, Andrew M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens, Discontinuous Syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek, page 52: