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Sino-Platonic Papers, 27 (August 3 1, 1991) b. haishang jintian feng lang hen da. sea-LOC today wind waves very big (On the sea today the wind and waves are high. c. fena lang jintian haishang hen da. wind waves today sea-LOC very big 'Speaking of wind and waves, today on the sea (they) are high.' d. fene. lanq hai-shang 5ntia.n hen da. wind waves sea-LOC today very big (Speaking of wind and waves, on the sea today (they) are high.' 4 Summary of Arguments and Theoretical Ramifications To sum up, we have found on the one hand that temporal and locative expressions occurring between the primary topic and the main verb possess all the qualities of a primary topic except in some cases the qualities involved have further restriction in the case of temporals and locatives. On the other hand, we have also found that the temporal and locative in question and the secondary topic in a number of constructions have a great deal in common. We have thus proved beyond any reasonable doubt that non-sentenceinitial, preverbal locatives and temporals can be non-primary topics. This conclusion of ours is further supported by the following two observations. First, in our discussion of adverbs in general we have found that universally, locatives and temporals have possessed more nominal quality than other kinds of adverbials. This then explains why they are easier to become topics for, even though topics are not completely restricted to norninals, most of them are, and, other things being equal, the more nominal quality a constituent has, the more likely for it to become a topic. This also accounts for the fact that Chinese allows far more prepositions in a prepositional phrase, especially those expressing time and location, to drop than English does. This is so because Chinese is far more topic-oriented than English. Second, we have reported the findin s of many linguists that the information-wise neutral version of the order of placement o f a multi-adverbial coi~struction is: temporal > locative > benefactive > manner > dative > instrumental and we have raised the question of why temporals and locatives should come first. We are now in a better position to answer the question: Temporals and locatives head the hierarchy because they are, of all adverbials, the easiest to become topics. This observation also implies that other types of adverbials, though not as commonly as temporals and locatives, can become topics as well. This is indeed the case, as can be seen by t.he following examples. (40) @ weile ta-de haizi ya chi-le j hen duo he for he-POSS child PARTeat-ASP very much
ku, Schrifjcestschrijt: &says in Honor of John DeFrancis 1 j zhe ji nian lao-le suffering these few year old-ASP xu duo very much 'Speaking of him, for his children, he underweilt much suffering (and) in the past few years (he) has become much older.' (41) & wu-kuai qian a mai-le nei-jian he five-dollar money PARTbuy-ASP. that-CL da-yi . overcoat 'Speaking of him, wit 11 five dollars (he) bought the overcoat. ' Thus, by positing certain adverbials, inainly temporals and locatives, as non-primary topics, we are able to explain these two peculiar phenomena about Chinese adverbials very nicely. These two observations can, in this way, be regarded as indirect supports for our analysis.
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