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Publication details [#9478]

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

agent | subject | theme2

Language as a subject

English

Journal WWW

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Annotation

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