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Hanging Topics and Frames in the Romance Languages: Syntax, Discourse, Diachrony

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2022
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Stark, E. (2022). Hanging Topics and Frames in the Romance Languages: Syntax, Discourse, Diachrony. In P. OUP (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (p. online). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.652

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Hanging topics and frames are optional, adjunct-like utterance-initial elements without any syntactic function inside the clause they precede. Both terms are frequently used in an ambiguous way in the specialized literature, in a way that often confounds syntactic and functional properties. However, hanging topics and frames can be kept apart. Hanging topics, on the one hand, are defined as utterance-initial syntactically and often prosodically independent constituents that denote the topic referent, that is, a discourse referent, an

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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics

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hanging topics, frames, connectivity, topic, aboutness, thematic markers, left periphery

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2022-07-18

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Stark, E. (2022). Hanging Topics and Frames in the Romance Languages: Syntax, Discourse, Diachrony. In P. OUP (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (p. online). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.652

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