TY  - JOUR
A1  - LaPolla, Randy J.
T1  - Chinese as a topic-comment (not topic-prominent and not SVO) language
T2  - Studies of Chinese Linguistics: Functional Approaches, ed. by Janet Xing
N2  - Many linguists in China and the West have talked about Chinese as a topic-comment language, that is, a language in which the structure of the clause takes the form of a topic, about which something is to be said, and a comment, which is what is said about the topic, rather than being a language with a subject-predicate structure like that of English. Y. R. Chao (1968), for example, said that all Chinese clauses have topic-comment structure and there are no exceptions.
KW  - Sinotibetische Sprachen
KW  - Chinesisch
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14825
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157490
UR  - http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Chinese_as_Topic-Comment_Language.pdf
SP  - 9
EP  - 22
PB  - Hong Kong University Press
CY  - Hong Kong
ER  -