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Justus, Carol. 1976. Relativization and topicalization in Hittite. In Li, Charles N., ed. Subject and topic. Academic Press. pp. 213–245.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

J. shows that in Hittite, though that language often codifies the subject-verb relationship, the semantic organizational principle based on topic prominence is primary in a way that it is not in subject prominent languages like English.