Non-referential topical phrases in Romanian and the theory of topicality

I discuss various theories of sentence topics against the background of attested examples of topicalization in Romanian. I argue that non-referential topical phrases constitute a problem for the concept of aboutness topic proposed by Reinhart (1981) and can better be accounted for in a theory where...

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Main Author: Ion Giurgea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2017-06-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BWPL_2017_1_GIURGEA.pdf