Topic-prominent language
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Topic-prominent language
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A topic-prominent language is a language that organizes its syntax to emphasize the topic–comment structure of the sentence. The term is best known in American linguistics from Charles N. Li and Sandra Thompson, who distinguished topic-prominent languages, such as Korean and Japanese, from subject-prominent languages, such as English. In Li and Thompson's (1976) view, topic-prominent languages have morphology or syntax that highlights the distinction between the topic and the comment. Topic–comm
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Language organizing its syntax to emphasize the topic–comment structure of the sentence
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2024-03-30T13:45:44Z
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