topic₁

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• KUNO 1987 16-17, 23 (topichood)

  KUNO, Susumu. (1987) Functional Syntax: Anaphora, Discourse & Empathy. Chicago: University Press.

• Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.] 270-271

  DUCROT, Oswald and TODOROV, Tzvetan. (1979 [trans.]) Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language. Trans. by Catherine Porter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

• RUWET 1973[trans.] 280

  RUWET, Nicholas. (1973 [trans.]) An Introduction to Generative Grammar. Trans. by Norval S.H. Smith. Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Co.

• PIKE & PIKE 1982 226

  PIKE, Kenneth L. & PIKE, Evelyn G. (1982) Grammatical Analysis. Dallas: SIL & UTA.

• NASH 1968 243

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 239

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• TRASK 1993 279-280

  TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

• QUIRK etal. 1985 79

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• ELL 4629ff.

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• WALES 1989 462

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• PALMATIER 1972 182

  PALMATIER, Robert A. (1972) A Glossary for English Transformational Grammar. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

• LEVINSON 1983 88

  LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

• LYONS 1971 334-335

  LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

• LYONS 1977 501

  LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

• CROFT 1990 10 (=sentence topic), 167-168

  CROFT, William. (1990) Typology and Universals. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

• MATTHEWS 1981 214-215

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1981) Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• DIK 1978 19, 141

  DIK, Simon C. (1978) Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.

• SPERBER & WILSON 1988 202, 216 (= sentence topic)

  SPERBER, Dan & WILSON, Deirdre. (1988) Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.

• GIVON 1984 137-138

  GIVON, Talmy. (1984) Syntax: A Functional-Typological Introduction, Vols. I & II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• VACHEK 1966 18

  VACHEK, Josef. (1966) The Linguistic School of Prague. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

• HOCK 1986 314-315

  HOCK, Hans Henrich. (1986) Principles of Historical Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• GRIMES 1975 324

  GRIMES, Joseph E. (1975) The Thread of Discourse. The Hague: Mouton.

• ARNDT & JANNEY 1987 249-250

  ARNDT, Horst & JANNEY, Richard Wayne. (1987) InterGrammar: Toward an Integrative Model of Verbal, Prosodic and Kinesic Choices in Speech. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• WEINREICH 1980 63

  WEINREICH, Uriel. (1980) On Semantics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Brown & Yule 1983 70-71

  BROWN, Gillian & YULE, George. (1983) Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• DIJK 1977 114

  DIJK, Teun A. van. (1977) Text and Context. Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse. London : Longman.

• DIJK 1980 39, 94-95 (sentence topic)

  DIJK, Teun A. van. (1980) Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

• COMRIE 1981 58, 191 (topic-worthiness)

  COMRIE, Bernard. (1981) Language Universals and Linguistic Typology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• MATTHEWS 1997 380-381 (#2, #3; also "topic-prominent language")

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• FINCH 2000 97-98

  FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 384 (#2)

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.

• CRYSTAL 2003 468 (also "topic sentence")

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

• MARTIN & RINGHAM 2006 202 (topic space)

  MARTIN, Bronwen & RINGHAM, Felizitas. (2006) Key Terms in Semiotics. London: Continuum.