TY  - CHAP
A1  - Liu, Danqing
T1  - Identical topics in Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese
T2  - Issues on topics / Ed. by Kerstin Schwabe ..., Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 20
N2  - Identical topic (IT henceforth) was previously known as copying topic (Xu & Liu (1998:141-157). It is fully or partially identical to a corresponding element (CE henceforth) occurring in the following part of the clause. Broadly speaking, IT is semantically empty. Being an unusual type of adding, it properly falls into the central concern of this volume.
It seems IT can be attested in all Chinese dialects, though the phenomena in question have been poorly documented and have scarcely been studied under a unified category. IT seems to be a better candidate to characterise topic prominent languages than many other topic types including the non-gap topic, which has long been called "Chinese style topic" since Chafe (1976) and has been viewed as a major characteristic of topic prominent languages (e.g., Li & Thompson, 1976, Xu & Langendoen 1985, Gasde 1999). I believe the study of IT structure is necessary to obtain a clearer and more complete picture of topic structure in general. As far as I know, Wu dialects of Chinese, including Shanghainese, are the ones which have the richest IT types and the greatest text frequency of IT. Therefore, this study will be based on both Mandarin and Shanghainese data.
KW  - Chinesisch
KW  - Shanghai
KW  - Dialekt
KW  - Topik
Y1  - 2000
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30767
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307676
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp20/zaspil20-liu.pdf
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 20
SP  - 43
EP  - 69
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -