Publications

Publication details [#228]

Givón, Talmy, ed. 1983. Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study. John Benjamins. 492 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

thematic continuity

Articles in this volume

Givón, Talmy. Topic continuity in discourse: An introduction. 1–41

Hinds, John V. Topic continuity in Japanese. 43–93

Gasser, Michael. Topic continuity in written Amharic narrative. 95–139

Givón, Talmy. Topic continuity and word-order pragmatics in Ute. 141–214

Fox, Andrew. Topic continuity in Biblical Hebrew narrative. 215–254

Bentivoglio, Paola. Topic continuity and discontinuity in discourse: A study of spoken Latin-American Spanish. 255–311

Brown, Cheryl. Topic continuity in written English narrative. 313–341

Givón, Talmy. Topic continuity in spoken English. 343–363

Jaggar, Philip J. Some dimensions of topic-NP continuity in Hausa narrative. 365–424

Cooreman, Ann. Topic continuity and the voicing system of an ergative language: Chamorro. 425–489

Reviewed by

Allan, Keith. 1987. Review of T.Givon (ed.) (1983: `Topic continuity in discourse').

Chen, Ping. 1985. Review of T.Givon (ed.) (1983: `Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study').