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H043A16720318200301006405Subject1finiteverb23JohnkilledBill/BillkilledJohnJohnBill[1]ThemeThemeRhemeV.MathesiusactualdivisionofthesentenceThemetransition,TrRhemeTrRTTheThemeisthestarting-pointforthemessage;itisthegroundfromwhichtheclauseistakingoff[2]RhemesimplethememultiplethemeclausethemetextualinterpersonalideationalcontinuativestructuralconjunctivevocativemodelfiniteWHtopic20031JournalofShenzhenPolytechnicNo.1,2003165topiccomment/ThemeRheme1921[3][4][5]2070C.N.LiS.A.ThompsonTopic-ProminentLanguageSubject-ProminentLanguage[6]/topicstructure(unmarked)(marked)[7]662[8][10]12131415AmanwaskilledbyabusonNanjingRoadyesterdayevening.16721216621[9]Brown&Yuletopicframework[11]////(typology)unmarked/Lyons,JSemanticsLondon:CambridgeUniversityPressHalliday,MAKAnIntroductiontoFunctionalGrammar2ndedLondon:EdwardArnold682Brown,Gillian&GeorgeYule.DiscourseAnalysisCambridge:CambridgeUniversityPressOnthetopicstructureinChineseYANGShiqiaoDepartmentofForeignLanguages,ShenzhenPolytechnic,Shenzhen,Guangdong518055,ChinaAbstract:ThisarticletriestoillustratethedifferentconceptsofSubject/Object,Theme/RhymeandTopic/Comment.AndproposesthatTopic/CommentstructureismoreappropriatethanthetraditionalgrammaticalwaytotheChineselanguageanalysis,elaboratesthefeaturesoftopicinChinese.WeconcludethatTopic/CommentstructureisnormalinChineseandChineseisatopic-prominentlanguage.Keywords:topicstructure;topic-prominent;Chinese