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Schachter, Paul. 1976. The subject in Philippine languages: Topic, actor, actor-topic, or none of the above? In Li, Charles N., ed. Subject and topic. Academic Press. pp. 491–518.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject

Annotation

S. presents arguments for and against the subjecthood of three different classes of sentence constituents in the Philippine languages, viz. topic, actor, and actor-topic. He concludes that all three share the properties commonly associated with subjects.