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Tomlin, Russell S. 1983. On the interaction of syntactic subject, thematic information, and agent in English. Journal of Pragmatics 7 : 411–432.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject

Annotation

An empirical investigation showing that for English, the function of the syntactic subject is to encode primarily thematic information, and secondarily agent.