Universal 1324:
- Original
- Every human language has a common clause type with bipartite structure in which the constituents can reasonably be termed “topic” and “comment”.
- Standardized
- Every human language has a common clause type with bipartite structure in which the constituents can reasonably be termed “topic” and “comment”.
- Keywords
- clause, topic, comment
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Hockett 1963: 23
- Counterexamples
