to show that topic-comment structures in Tp languages cannot be viewed as being derived from any other sentence type, and that the topic function has in Tp languages been integrated into the basic syntax of the sentence. 4.2 On the notion "basic sentence" A sentence A is more basic than a...
There's a substantial differentiation between Chinese topic-commentary sentence and English subject-predicate sentence. The topic in the topic-commentary sentence may refer to one matter, or to a blending of several matters, so the topic is very likely to be represented by a word, a phrase, a...
H1 Selectives tend to be units of the sentence (in the sense of unit with one main clause). H2 Selectives tend to occur early in the sentence. H3 Selectives tend to occur after or at the very end of their constituent. H4 Selectives are associated with (have scope over) a syntactic ...
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