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Information Structure with Aidan Aannestad

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Topicality and Focus in French

Aidan: I feel like it's worth mentioning that these sorts of topicality and focus processes can also be steps on the road to other things. For example, French has grammaticalized its former pronouns into basically polypersonal agreement prefixes because of topicalization fronting. Aidan: That's an interesting take on the French polypersonal agreement. Well, it's been really great talking to you, Aidan.

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