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Information flow
In discourse-based grammatical theory, information flow is any tracking of referential information by speakers. Information flow affects grammatical structures such as

  • word order (topic, focus, and afterthought constructions)
  • active, passive, or middle voice
  • choice of deixis, such as articles; proximal, medial, and distal deictics such as Spanish este, ese, aquel, are often determined by the familiarity of a referent as much as by physical distance
  • overtness of information, such as whether an argument of a verb is indicated by a lexical noun phrase, a pronoun, or not mentioned at all.

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