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Publication details [#5941]

Lambrecht, Knud. 1980. Topic, French style: Remarks about a basic sentence type of modern non-standard French. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 6 : 337–360.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
dialect1 | predicate | subject | topic vs. comment
Language as a subject
French

Annotation

L. offers a typology of non-standard French in which both the subject-predicate and the topic-comment relationship are syntactically encoded.