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Background methodological preliminaries - communicative function and syntactic structure word classes simple sentences - predications and case-roles case-marking typology - subject, object and transitivity word-order typology information-theoretic preliminaries to discourse pragmatics tense-aspect-modality negation pronouns and grammatical agreement definiteness and referentiality.
Heath et al. (1992) studied this question.