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Publication details [#9813]
Vries, Lourens De. 1985. Topic and focus in Wambon discourse. In Bolkestein, A. Machtelt, Casper De Groot and J. Lachlan Mackenzie, eds. Syntax and pragmatics in functional grammar. Foris. pp. 155–180. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
V. develops the view that topic and focus mediate between discourse constraints on informational cohesion and the syntactic form of linguistic expressions. The article concentrates on the behavior of switch-reference and focal suffixes in Wambon.