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  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library

Topic continuity in discourse :

Topic continuity in discourse : a quantitative cross-language study / edited by T. Givón. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1983. - 492 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Typological studies in language, v. 3 0167-7373 ; .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Topic continuity in discourse, an introduction / T. Givón -- Topic continuity in Japanese / J. Hinds -- Topic continuity in written Amharic narrative / M. Gasser -- Topic continuity and word-order pragmatics in Ute / T. Givón -- Topic continuity in Biblical Hebrew narrative / A. Fox -- Topic continuity and discontinuity in discourse / P. Bentivoglio -- Topic continuity in written English narrative / C. Brown -- Topic continuity in spoken English / T. Givón -- Some dimensions of Topic-NR continuity in Hausa narrative / P. Jaggar -- Topic continuity and the voicing system of an ergative language / A. Cooreman.

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P302 / .T66 1983