Topic-comment and relative clause in Arabic
Nancy K. Lewkowicz · Language · 1971
Three recent analyses of Arabic topic-comment sentences are re-examined, and some advantages of generating these structures as NP plus an embedded S, rather than by an optional transformation extracting a topic from an ordinary S, are pointed out. The possibility of topic-comment sentences being embedded as relative clauses is examined, and a severe restriction is proposed on the structure of the sentences to be embedded as relative clauses.