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Meer, Nikki Rie van der (2022)

How Chinese are Chinese-style topics? An analysis of dangling topics in Chinese, Japanese, Turkish and Dutch

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)
This thesis questions whether dangling topics, also often called ''Chinese-style'' topics really only occur in Chinese. This is done by investigating Chinese (from mainland China and Taiwan), Japanese, Turkish and Dutch. The results show that dangling topics in Chinese are only possible to a certain extent. Moreover, they are also acceptable in other languages (although mostly in marginal contexts).
dangling topics
information structure
Chinese
Dutch
Turkish
Japanese
Author
Meer, Nikki Rie van der
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Diversity
Supervisors
Sybesma, R.P.E.
ECTS Credits
20
Language
en