The Praguian concepts met a favorable response within continental linguistics (one should mention in this connection especially the works by British linguists M. A. K. Halliday and H. W. Kirkwood, several German linguists such as J. Esser, R. Bartsch, and J. Jacobs, the French linguist J.-M. Zemb, and others).
only the syntactic or word order consequences (or, as the case may be, conditions) of different sentence articulations into topic and focus were mostly taken into account, and its relevance for and effects on the coherence of discourse.