Universal 378:

Universal 378:

Original

Every language has syntactic topic constructions in which an expression which refers to the topic of the sentence is adjoined to the left of a full sentence comment.

Standardized

Every language has syntactic topic constructions in which an expression which refers to the topic of the sentence is adjoined to the left of a full sentence comment.

Keywords

topic, order, comment, theme, new information

Domain

syntax, pragmatics

Type

unconditional

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

a sample of 30 languages, see Gundel 1988: 210

Source

Gundel 1988: 231

Counterexamples