Subject-prominent vs.Topic- prominent A subject-prominent language (eg.English) is a language in which the grammatical units of subject and predicate(SV)are basic to the structure of sentences and in which sentences usually have subject-predicate structure. A topic-prominent language (eg.Chinese) is one in which the information units of topic and comment are basic to the structure of sentence.Subject-prominent vs. Topic￾prominent ◼ A subject-prominent language (eg. English) is a language in which the grammatical units of subject and predicate (SV) are basic to the structure of sentences and in which sentences usually have subject-predicate structure. ◼ A topic-prominent language (eg. Chinese) is one in which the information units of topic and comment are basic to the structure of sentence