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Publication details [#3649]

Gasser, Michael. 1983. Topic continuity in written Amharic narrative. In Givón, Talmy, ed. Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study. John Benjamins. pp. 95–139.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

literacy | narrative | thematic continuity

Language as a subject

Amharic

Annotation

An investigation, along the lines of T. Givon's quantitative method, of the relative topic continuity of some constructions in written Amharic narratives.