Universal 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
- Counterexamples
