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Publication details [#356]

Li, Charles N., ed. 1976. Subject and topic. Academic Press. xiii + 594 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
subject | topic

Articles in this volume

Chafe, Wallace L. Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics, and point of view. 25–55
Friedman, Lynn A. The manifestation of subject, object, and topic in the American Sign Language. 125–148
Givón, Talmy. Topic, pronoun and grammatical agreement. 149–188
Hyman, Larry M. and Karl E. Zimmer. Embedded topic in French. 189–211
Justus, Carol. Relativization and topicalization in Hittite. 213–245
Keenan, Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin. Topic as a discourse notion: A study of topic in the conversations of children and adults. 335–384
Kirsner, Robert S. On the subjectless 'pseudo-passive' in standard Dutch and the semantics of background agents. 385–415
Kuno, Susumu. Subject, theme, and the speaker's empathy: A reexamination of relativization phenomena. 419–444
Lehmann, Winfred P. From topic to subject in Indo-European. 445–456
Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. Subject and topic: A new typology of language. 457–489
Schachter, Paul. The subject in Philippine languages: Topic, actor, actor-topic, or none of the above? 491–518
Schwartz, Arthur. On the universality of subject: The Ilocano case. 519–543

Reviewed by

Munroe, Pamela. 1979. Review of $Subject and topic.
Duranti, Alessandro. 1976. Review of $Subject and topic.