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The dimensions of topiccomment
Abstract
This paper argues that the common denominator of topic–comment (TC) constructions in natural languages is not a single functional feature (e.g. aboutness) but rather the fact that they share some salient semantic attri-butes with prototypical examples of TC. The paper tries to disentangle these prototypical semantic attributes of TC and then shows, mainly refer-ring to examples from German, that diVerent TC constructions are charac-terized by diVerent combinations of these attributes and therefore cannot be analyzed properly by unitary theories of TC function. 1.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jacobs, J.
- Venue
- Linguistics
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2001-01-03
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0024-3949 (ISSN-L)
- 1613-396X
- OpenAlex
- W2576720793
- Cited by
- 356
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 42.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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