The Even Yearbook 6 (2004)

 volume  6 (2004)
 pages  60–73
 author  Miklós Gáspár
 title  Topic universality in OT inputs
 abstract  The paper attempts to harmonize the treatment of topic/comment and subject/predicate languages within Optimality Theoretical syntax by arguing that topics, like subjects, are compulsory elements of the OT input. Whether a topic is actually present in the grammatical sentence is up to the grammar to decide. An analysis is provided for topic phenomena in languages with very different topic behaviour: German, Hungarian, English and Japanese.
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@article{even04ga,
  author  = {Miklós Gáspár},
  title   = {Topic universality in {OT} inputs},
  year    = 2004,
  journal = {The Even Yearbook},
  volume  = 6,
  pages   = {60–73},
  url     = {http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/04ga}
}
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Gáspár, Miklós. 2004. Topic universality in OT inputs. The Even Yearbook 6: 60–73. http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/04ga