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Publication details [#4225]

Haiman, John. 1978. Conditionals are topics. Language 54 (3) : 564–589.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conditional utterance | topic

Annotation

H. observes that conditional clauses and topics are marked identically in a number of unrelated languages. This observation leads him to explore the semantic similarities between these two categories which are not normally considered to be related.

Reviewed by

Ford, Cecilia E. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1986. Conditionals in discourse: A text-based study from English. In Ford, Cecilia E. and Sandra A. Thompson. Conditionals in discourse: A text-based study from English. In : 353–372. : 353–372.