Comparative Concept: topic–comment construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
topic–comment construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | topic–comment construction |
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Definition
the construction that expresses a topic–comment information packaging. Example: The bus stopped is an instance of a topic–comment construction in which stopped is the comment and The bus is the topic. (Sections 2.2.2, 10.1.2, 11.1, 11.2.1)