topicality

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In a message dated 2005-02-17 5:21:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, lojbab via ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> All places of a predicate are equal.  


How then is topicality determined?  In many languages topicality decreases as one continues speaking a sentence, i.e., it's greater at the beginning of the sentence and decreases toward the end.  This scheme would work well, I think, for Lojban, too, since it's easy to alter the place structure.  

stevo