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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Main Author: Jiayi Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2020-07-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/9313