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Lehmann, Winfred P. 1976. From topic to subject in Indo-European. In Li, Charles N., ed. Subject and topic. Academic Press. pp. 445–456.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
subject | syntactic change | topic
Language as a subject
Languages, Indo-European

Annotation

L. argues that a development from topic-prominent to subject-prominent languages took place in Indo-European.