Chinese as a topic-comment (not topic-prominent and not SVO) language
- 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.
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| Author: | Randy J. LaPolla |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157490 |
| URL: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Chinese_as_Topic-Comment_Language.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Studies of Chinese Linguistics: Functional Approaches, ed. by Janet Xing |
| Publisher: | Hong Kong University Press |
| Place of publication: | Hong Kong |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/13 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/13 |
| GND Keyword: | Sinotibetische Sprachen; Chinesisch |
| Page Number: | 15 |
| First Page: | 9 |
| Last Page: | 22 |
| Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Chinese_as_Topic-Comment_Language.pdf ; (in:) Studies of Chinese Linguistics: Functional Approaches, ed. by Janet Xing. - Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009, S. 9-22 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 228818974 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
