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Re: interesting websites: topic-prominent languages, Lisu, etc.

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Sunday, October 1, 2000, 13:52
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:

> There is a nice brief website on topic-prominent languages (differing > from subject-prominent languages): > http://angli02.kgw.tu-berlin.de/Korean/Artikel03/I.htm
Fun. :-) I did notice my Japanese grammar noted the difference between "wa" and "ga," and how "topic" wasn't always what an English-speaker would consider "subject." I *think* the Korean equivalents are "(n)un" and "(i)ka." Alas, I'm doing the boring subject-prominent thing in Chevraqis. :-p YHL