Subject and TopicCharles N. Li |
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Givenness Contrastiveness Definiteness Subjects | 25 |
On the Subject of Two Passives in Indonesian | 57 |
Properties of Basic and Derived Subjects in Jacaltec | 99 |
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accusative actor actor-topic agent Allison anaphoric b-sentences b-subjects babai basic canonical Passive child claim cleft constituent constraint context contrast coreferential dative definite deletion derived subject direct object discourse topic discussion embedded clause empathy English Equi ergative language example expressed fact focus focussed function girl hierarchy high participant Hittite identified Ilocano indefinite intransitive j'ai Jacaltec ject John Keenan lalaki lamba lexical linguistic listener Lisu Malagasy manasa marked marker Mary matrix Maurice mereka morphological Morris mother nominal Note notion noun phrase object agreement Object Preposing occur person Philippine languages position predicate preposition pronominal pronouns pseudo-passive question Rabe Rasoa referent reflexive reflexivization relative clause relativization repair role rule saja semantic speaker structure subject NP subject properties surface syntactic Tagalog Talmy Givón tence theme tion tive topic-comment topic-prominent topic-prominent languages transitive verbs underlying subject ungrammatical universal utterance verb agreement verbal wash clothes woman word order