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Interesting, why is the topic-comment structure considered lazy and weak? Does this apply also to topic-prominent and free-word-order languages?
by tuukkah 19y ago
Interesting, why is the topic-comment structure considered lazy and weak? Does this apply also to topic-prominent and free-word-order languages?
- queensnake 19y agoI don't know, I read that in a blog-post (or somewhere) about the Chinese language. Wikipedia has an article on it. Given that it was Prussians who first categorized it, it might be a judgement left over from them. It's probably because it's easier, and does away with structure (shrug). Actually no, I recall it was said sort of generally, but 'weak' in the sense of lacking expressive power or something. Ach, truthfully, it's just an impression I was left with with something I read a long time ago. And it /feels/ easier, so that interpretation stuck with me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-comment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-comment