Topic and topic-comment constructions in mandarin Chinese
Topic and topic-comment constructions in mandarin Chinese
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作者：
Shi, DX
本文试图为topic提供一个精确的定义，并从这个定义中推导出topic的大部分属性。本文的主要假设是：话题-评论结构是一种句法手段，用来实现一定的语篇功能。主题总是与评论中的位置相关。由于话题没有独立的主位角色，而总是依赖于评论中的某个成分来实现其主位角色，所以它本身没有句法功能。这种依赖关系受位置约束。*
This article attempts to provide a precise definition for topic and to derive most of the properties of topic from this definition. The main assumption is that the topic-comment construction is a syntactic device employed to fulfill certain discourse functions. Topic is always related to a position inside the comment. Since topic has no independent thematic role but always depends on an element inside the comment for its thematic role, it has no syntactic function of its own. This dependence relationship is subject to locality constraints.*