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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Topic continuity in discourse</title>
    <subTitle>a quantitative cross-language study</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Givón, Talmy</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1936-</namePart>
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    <publisher>J. Benjamins Pub. Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1983</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>492 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by T. Givón.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographies and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Discourse analysis</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Grammar, Comparative and general</topic>
    <topic>Topic and comment</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">P302 .T66 1983</classification>
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      <title>Typological studies in language, v. 3</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9027228671</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9027228639 (pbk.)</identifier>
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