Contextual Conditions and Constraints in Chinese Dangling Topics
This present study verifies the aboutness condition proposed by Chao, 1968; Chafe, 1976; Li and Thompson, 1981; Xu and Langendoen, 1985 and many others as a relation that holds between sentence-initial NPs and comment clauses of alleged gapless topic-comment constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Four...
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Language: | English |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2020-07-01
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Series: | Acta Linguistica Asiatica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/9313 |