DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmatopic-of the sentence
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaChomsky (1969)
TitoloAspects of the theory of syntax
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Thus we might define the Topic-of the sentence as the leftmost NP immediately dominated by S in the surface structure [...] One might refine it in various ways, for example, by defining the Topic-of the Sentence as the leftmost NP that is immediately dominated by S in the surface structure and that is, furthermore, a major category.
- Chomsky (1969), Pag. 221