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Vennemann, Theo. 1975. Topics, sentence accent, ellipsis: A proposal for their formal treatment. In Keenan, Edward Louis, ed. Formal semantics of natural language: Papers from a colloquium sponsored by the King's College Research Centre, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. pp. 313–328. 
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Article in book
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English
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V. proposes a system of pragmato-semantic notation in which discourse sentences with identical truth conditions but different topic-comment structure, different sentence accent, or different degrees of verbal explicitness receive different semantic representations.