Universal #383

Legacy number: 383

 Number  382
 Original  The more topic-prominent a language, the less restricted the distribution of zero anaphora in that language.
 Standardized  The higher the topic-prominence, the less restricted the distribution of zero anaphora.
 Keywords  topic, anaphora, zero
 Domain  syntax, pragmatics
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  a sample of 30 languages, see Gundel 1988: 210
 Source  Gundel 1988: 232

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