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Publication details [#5804]

Kuno, Susumu. 1972. Functional sentence perspective: A case study from Japanese and English. Linguistic Inquiry 3 (3) : 269–320.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

K. shows that the notions of theme, contrast, old and new information, which play a decisive role in Japanese syntax, do so for English as well.