2002) The syntactic encoding of topic and focus

In this paper, I examine what appears to be a minor quirk of Malagasy grammar. I show, however, that this special construction sheds light on the projection of topic and focus cross-linguistically. Although languages such as Italian, as argued by Rizzi (1997), may have TopicP and FocusP, Malagasy lacks these projections altogether. In other words, I put forth data fro