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Re: Fishing for Complements?

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 4, 1999, 6:37
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Jim Grossmann wrote:

> > Still, I'll sincerely welcome any suggestion for a better term for my > "subject." >
Why not call it topic - that's what it is, more or less, and there are no rules that say that a topic must always be sentence-initial. Perhaps you've just discovered the comment-topic construction ;-). Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt