@article{524252,
  address   = {Amsterdam/Philadephia},
  author    = {Kirkpatrick, Andy},
  journal   = {Studies in Language},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {93-113},
  publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  title     = {'Topic — Comment or Modifier — Modified? Information Structure in Modern Standard Chinese},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.20.1.05kir},
  volume    = {20},
  year      = {1996},
  abstract  = {In this paper we first summarise how linguists have treated the notions of topic and comment in the context of Chinese sentence structure. We then review how a number of Chinese scholars have analysed sentence structure in Chinese. We then propose that certain sentences in MSC traditionally analysed as following a topic — comment sequence, particularly those with sentence initial adverbial clauses are, in fact, exhibiting the principle of modifier — modified sequence rather than the topic — comment sequence.},
  doi       = {10.1075/sl.20.1.05kir},
  hhtype    = {grammar_sketch (computerized assignment from "structure")},
  issn      = {0378-4177},
  lgcode    = {Shatt [shj] (computerized assignment from "modified")},
  src       = {benjamins}
}