Preface
1. On the notion of subject in ergative languages
Stephen Anderson
2. Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics, and point of view
Wallace L. Chafe
3. On the subject of two passives in Indonesian
Sandra Chung
4. Properties of basic and derived subjects in Jacaltec
Collette G. Craig
5. The manifestation of subject, object, and topic in American sign language
Lynn A. Friedman
6. Topic, Pronoun, and Grammatical Agreement
Talmy Givon
7. Imbedded topic in French
Larry H. Hyman and Karl E. Zimmer
8. Relativization and topicalization in Hittite
Carol Justus
9. Remarkable subjects in Malagasy
Edward L. Keenan
10. Towards a universal definition of “Subject”
Edward L. Keenan
11. Topic as a discourse notion: a study of topic in the conversations of children and adults
Elinor Ochs Keenan and Bambi B. Schieffelin
12. On the subjectless “Pseudo-Passive” in standard Dutch and the semantics of background agents
Robert S. Kirsner
13. Subject, theme, and the speaker’s empathy—a reexamination of relativization phenomena
Susumu Kuno
14. From topic to subject in Indo-European
W.P. Lehmann
15. Subject and topic: a new typology of language
Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson
16. The subject in Philippine languages: topic, actor, actor-topic, or none of the above
Paul Schachter
17. On the universality of subjects: the Ilocano case
Arthur Schwartz
18. Subject Properties in the North Russian Passive
Alan Timberlake
Biography
Charles N. Li is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, USA. He specializes in evolutionary origin of language; animal communication; and language and brain.
Charles N. Li is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, USA. He specializes in evolutionary origin of language; animal communication; and language and brain.
