Universal 380:
- Original
- Every language has “double-subject”* constructions.
- Standardized
- Every language has “double-subject”* constructions.
- Keywords
- topic, comment
- Domain
- syntax, pragmatics
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- a sample of 30 languages, see Gundel 1988: 210
- Source
- Gundel 1988: 231
- Counterexamples
Double-subject constructions: A topic can be adjoined to a full sentence comment which lacks a co-referring expression. For example in English:My work, I’m going crazy.