Topic continuity in discourse : a quantitative cross-language study

Author(s)

• Givón, Talmy
• Hinds, John V.
• Gasser, Michael
• Fox, Andrew
• Bentivoglio, Paola
• Brown, Cheryl
• Jaggar, Philip J.
• Cooreman, Ann M.

Bibliographic Information

Topic continuity in discourse : a quantitative cross-language study

edited by T. Givón

（Typological studies in language, v. 3）

J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1983

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Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Topic continuity in discourse : an introduction / T. Givón
• Topic continuity in Japanese / J. Hinds
• Topic continuity in written Amharic narrative / M. Gasser
• Topic continuity and word-order pragmatics in Ute / T. Givón
• Topic continuity in Biblical Hebrew narrative / A. Fox
• Topic continuity and discontinuity in discourse : a study of spoken Latin-American Spanish / P. Bentivoglio
• Topic continuity in written English narrative / C. Brown
• Topic continuity in spoken English / T. Givón
• Some dimensions of Topic-NP continuity in Hausa narrative / P. Jaggar
• Topic continuity and the voicing system of an ergative language : chamorro / A. Cooreman

Details

• NCID: BA00358697
• ISBN:
  • 9027228671
  • 9027228639
• LCCN: 85673162
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: 492 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P302
  • NDC8 : 801.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Discourse analysis -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00242896