Is Hong Kong Sign Language a topic-prominent language?

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This paper addresses two questions. First, how can we know if a language is topic-prominent in the spirit of Li and Thompson. Second, is HKSL topic-prominent? This paper argues that some of the subsequent studies that adopt Li and Thompson's proposal may have over-interpreted the latter's initial claims by turning their observed characteristics of topic-priminence languages into "defining criteria" for topic-prominence.

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