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Creider, Chet A. 1976. Thematization in Luo. Pragmatics Microfiche 1 (7) : B14–B14.
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Article in journal
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English
Language as a subject

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C. suggests that the organization of conversation may have explanatory import for grammatical processes in natural languages. The example is thematization in Luo, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Kenya. C. argues that in Luo the initial constituent in a sentence is marked for the relational function 'theme', while the remainder constitutes a 'rheme'.

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