Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

566 TOPICS INDEX

thematic relations 33, 39-49, 56, 74-75,
170, 209-18, 222-25, 312, 335-36, 347-
48, 350-52, 354-55, 369, 441-45
theme 39-46, 68, 70, 75, 277-78, 300-1,
317-19, 335-36, 347-54, 389-90, 436,
441-48, 457-58
topic 23, 25-32, 91,386, 426
topic chains 60-62, 91
topic-comment (see focus, predi­
cate)
topicalization 215-16
transitivity 48-49, 75, 131, 203, 210-12,
222-25, 311-12, 340-46, 352, 362, 368-
69, 384, 425

U

unaccusativity (see split-intransitivity)

undergoer 43-64, 66-72, 75-84, passim

universals 4-5, 10, 34, 41-42, 47, 50, 64,

75,91,467-73

formal-functional 467-68, 496-97

universal grammar 109-112

V

valence (see transitivity)

verb classification 34-39

verb phrase 7, 32-33

voice 59-62, 66

(see also antipassive, passive)

W

wa vs. ga (Japanese) 26, 28, 87

X

X-bar syntax 3-4, 7, 20, 56