Topic continuity in discourse
Subtitle: a quantitative cross-language study
By: edited by T. Givón.
Contributors: Givón, Talmy, 1936-
Series: Typological studies in language,; v. 3
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Topic continuity in discourse, an introduction / T. Givón; title: Topic continuity in Japanese / J. Hinds; title: Topic continuity in written Amharic narrative / M. Gasser; title: Topic continuity and word-order pragmatics in Ute / T. Givón; title: Topic continuity in Biblical Hebrew narrative / A. Fox; title: Topic continuity and discontinuity in discourse / P. Bentivoglio; title: Topic continuity in written English narrative / C. Brown; title: Topic continuity in spoken English / T. Givón; title: Some dimensions of Topic-NR continuity in Hausa narrative / P. Jaggar; title: Topic continuity and the voicing system of an ergative language / A. Cooreman.