Christian Adjémian

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christian Adjémian is involved.

Article

Adjémian, Christian 1978 Theme, Rheme, and Word Order: From Weil to Present-Day Theories Historiographia Linguistica 5:3, pp. 253–273 | Article

Henri Weil’s thesis, published in Paris during the first half of the 19th century, is the first cogent theory of word order in European linguistics. Weil’s work is the first to argue that discourse structure has an effect on the internal structure of the sentence. His ideas are the direct… read more