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Publication details [#29664]
Davies, William D. 1993. Javanese subjects and topics and psych verbs. Linguistics 31 (2) : 239–277. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper deals with topic orientation in Javanese, as Western Austronesian language, and the grammatical status of 'subject'. It is argued that Javanese grammar requires subject and topic as two distinct sentence-level notions.