Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-language Study by Talmy Givón

Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-language Study

Talmy Givón

492 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

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The functional notion of topic or topicality has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent...

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