Topic and Topic-Comment Constructions in Mandarin Chinese  

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Shi, Dingxu

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 76 no. 2 (1999), page 383-408.
Fulltext: Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 383-408.pdf (578.6KB)

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This article attempts to provide a precise definition for topic and to derive most of the properties of topic from this definition. The main assumption is that the topic-comment construction is a syntactic device employed to fulfill certain discourse functions. Topic is always related to a position inside the comment. Since topic has no independent thematic role but always depends on an element inside the comment for its thematic role, it has no syntactic function of its own. This dependence relationship is subject to locality constraints.*

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