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beginning wth ज् /j/ parallet to the interrogative pronouns beginning with क् /k/. But

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the correlative pronouns start with either of स् /s/ or त् /t/ or उ /u/ or ओ /o/.
14.3 Anaphoric coherence

Cross-linguistically, according to Givón (2001a: 417), the anaphoric
coherence is mostly represented by the following four grammatical devices:

(8) a. Anaphoric zero
b. Unstressed anaphoric pronouns

c. Stressed independent pronouns
d. Definite (vs. indefinite) full-NPs

The topic/participant refers to an argument of a clause, co-referential with an
argument of a clause which is immediately (or almost immediately) preceding or
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following (Dixon, 2010a:171). A natural language may employ one or more devices
for marking an argument as topic. The most common devices include constituent
order, special particle or clitic, a bound pronoun, noun classifier, case marking, voice

alternations and switch reference (Dixon, 2010a:174). There are a number of
different means which languages may employ to mark an argument as

topic/participant (Payne, 1997:345).
(8) a. Anaphoric zeros

b. Verb coding (or anaphoric/grammatical agreement)
c. Unstressed (clitic) pronouns
d. Stressed independent pronouns

e. Demonstrative pronouns
f. Full noun phrase

g. Specific noun phrases
h. Special constituent order
i. Voice alternations

j. Switch reference system
Givón (1983: 17) presents a scale of cross-linguistic coding devices that are employed

to indicate topic continuity in discourse and grades them from the most continuous to
the most discontinuous as follows:

5. Relatives and correlatives have functionally been displayed in Chapter 13.4.3.
6. Dixon (2010a:171-2) further suggests that in some languages any core argument may be topic in
each clause, but a fair number of languages have grammatical conditions on what may be topic.
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