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Givón, Talmy. 1976. Topic, pronoun and grammatical agreement. In Li, Charles N., ed. Subject and topic. Academic Press. pp. 149–188.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

G. argues (i) that grammatical agreement, which is usually identified with subject-verb agreement, is fundamentally a topic-verb agreement, and (ii) that agreement and pronominalization are fundamentally one and the same phenomenon.