a strategy for expressing a topic in which the topic referring phrase differs from the expression of a prototypical subject phrase. Example: in German Peter, ich habe ihn heute nicht getroffen 'Peter, I have not met him today', the topic phrase Peter is in intial position, prosodically separated from the rest of the clause, and there is a pronoun ihn 'him' referring to Peter in the clause. Not all detached topics have all three of the morphosyntactic properties of the German example; there is a continuum from the prototypical subject/topic phrase and a 'fully' detached topic phrase. (Section 11.2.2)