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## Information Structure
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L'ewa doesn't have any particular structure for marking previously known
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information, as normal sentences should suffice in most cases. Consider this
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paragraph:
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I saw you eat an apple. Was it tasty?
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Since `an apple` was the last thing mentioned in the paragraph, the vague "it"
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pronoun in the second sentence can be interpreted as "the apple".
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L'ewa doesn't have a way to mark the topic of a sentence, that should be obvious
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from context (additional clauses to describe things will help here). In most
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cases the subject should be equivalent to the topic of a sentence.
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L'ewa doesn't directly offer ways to emphasize parts of sentences with phonemic
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stress like English does (eg: "I THOUGHT you ate an apple" vs "I thought you ATE
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an apple"), but emotion words can be used to help indicate feelings about
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things, which should suffice as far as emphasis goes.
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