On Embedded Topics in German
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چکیده
The topic-comment dichotomy as an information structural aspect of sentences has been studied intensively in the past literature. However, only very recently the question arised whether there may be sentence-topics also in embedded constructions. The few existing studies touching on this subject, primarily Japanese ones, suggest a tight relationship between the general possibility of topic-embedding and the assertive character of the embedding verb. This thesis discusses the conditions for embedded topicality on the basis of a new collection of German data. The analysis of this data reveals that in German there is clear evidence for embedded topics in assertive as well as in non-assertive environments. This surprising result is discussed against the background of the opposed Japanese findings and some considerations from other languages.
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