discontinuative

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discontinuative (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Indicating discontinuation.
    • 2010, Ines Fiedler, Anne Schwarz, The Expression of Information Structure:
      In narratives, discontinuative predicate focus is used when there is a topic shift, or when two referents are contrasted.

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