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Li, Wendan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
The topic chain is a frequently used structure in Chinese. In this article, its structural characteristics and its use in written narrative text are examined. Three major claims are made: (a) The topic of a chain does not have to overtly occur in the chain-initial clause as commonly believed; (b) depending on the context, a zero noun phrase (NP)…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Chinese