A syntactic-semantic optimality theoretic model on Hakka topic-comment construction

The purpose of this paper is to show how the basic Topic-Comment ordering pattern of the Hakka can be accounted for by the constraint-based optimality theory. Part of the linguistic data used in this paper is adopted from Xu (2002), while those examples presented to show syntactic tests are created...

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Main Author: Yu-Ching Tseng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Syiah Kuala 2021-05-01
Series:Studies in English Language and Education
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Online Access:https://jurnal.usk.ac.id/SiELE/article/view/18723