Another Look at Tagalog Subjects

There has been a fair amount of controversy over the right way of thinking about alternations like that shown in (1) (Tagalog), involving a phenomenon I will refer to as “topicalization”1: (1) a. Bumili ang lalaki ng bigas AT-bought T man G rice ‘The man bought rice.’ b. Binili ng lalaki ang bigas GT-bought A man T rice ‘A man bought the rice.’

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