given-new represent different types of informational choices. It is important to emphasize that theme and given, rheme and new, do not always correspond (see the second example above). To conflate the two ways of information structuring is to err in the same way the Prague School linguists did.14 Whereas thematic prominence is not necessarily unexpected at the clausal level (i.e. it is often unmarked), FOCUS refers to those linguistic elements that stand out somewhat unexpectedly. Such elements may