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Various suffixes#

Each suffix has 9 possible subdivisions called "degrees".

TPF Syntactic elements + topic/focus#

Topic representation#

topic full clause ends here head of relative clause
1 2 3
+ head of relative clause 4 5 -
+ full clause ends here 6 - -

Alternative representation with focus#

  focus topic full clause ends here head of relative clause
1 - yes - -
2 - - yes -
3 - - - yes
4 - yes - yes
5 - - yes yes
6 - yes yes -
7 yes - yes yes
8 yes - - -
9 yes - yes -