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cofocus

noun

Etymology

From co- + focus.

  1. borrowed from focus
  2. prefixed as cofocus — “co + focus”

Definitions

  1. An element in a clause, sentence, etc. that acts as the focus, or main element, in…

    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.
    • Not all cofoci are presuppositions; sometimes the cofocus is new information "accommodated" to the common ground which is introduced as though it were presupposed[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cofocus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA