Subject and Topic (Hardcover, 1)

?Preface 1. On the notion of subject in ergative languages 2. Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics, and point of view 3. On the subject of two passives in Indonesian 4. Properties of basic and derived subjects in Jacaltec 5. The manifestation of subject, object, and topic in American sign language 6. Topic, Pronoun, and Grammatical Agreement 7. Imbedded topic in French 8. Relativization and topicalization in Hittite 9. Remarkable subjects in Malagasy 10. Towards a universal definition of “Subject” 11. Topic as a discourse notion: a study of topic in the conversations of children and adults 12. On the subjectless “Pseudo-Passive” in standard Dutch and the semantics of background agents 13. Subject, theme, and the speaker’s empathy?a reexamination of relativization phenomena 14. From topic to subject in Indo-European 15. Subject and topic: a new typology of language 16. The subject in Philippine languages: topic, actor, actor-topic, or none of the above 17. On the universality of subjects: the Ilocano case 18. Subject Properties in the North Russian Passive