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cofocus

cofocus noun: an element in a clause, sentence, etc. that acts as the focus, or main element, in combination with another such element.

Noun

cofocus (plural cofoci)

  1. 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

Forms of cofocus

pluralcofoci

Origin of cofocus

From co- + focus.

Questions about cofocus

What does cofocus mean?
Cofocus means an element in a clause, sentence, etc. that acts as the focus, or main element, in combination with another such element.
What part of speech is cofocus?
Cofocus is a noun.
What is the plural of cofocus?
The plural of cofocus is cofoci.

Words near cofocus in the dictionary

  1. cofluctuation
  2. cofluctuations
  3. Cofnas
  4. cofocal
  5. cofoci
  6. cofocus
  7. cofolding
  8. coformulated
  9. coformulation
  10. coformulations
  11. coformycin

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