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topicalize
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top·i·cal·i·za·tion  (tp-k-l-zshn)
n. Linguistics
The placement of the topic at the beginning of a sentence, as in That movie, you couldn't pay me to see.
topi·cal·ize v.
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Verb1.topicalize - emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentencetopicalize - emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence; "Speakers topicalize more often than they realize"; "The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'"
linguistics - the scientific study of language
accent, accentuate, emphasize, stress, punctuate, emphasise - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
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Irina Nikolaeva believes that the use of the definite conjugation in Ob-Ugric languages is related to topicalisation (focusation) and is similar to the respective use in Samoyedic (Nikolaeva 2001 : 456-471; see also below in 4).
On the 3rd person verbal mark er *-sV and the definite conjugation in ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On remarquera que la topicalisation des complements de temps indiquant la duree n'est pas possible, comme on peut le voir ci-dessous dans les phrases a et b, et que ces complements ne se trouvent jamais en position pre-verbale, comme l'indiquent les phrases c et d: * a) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * b) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * c) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * d) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] III.
Etude contrastive des systemes temporels chinois et francais by Huang, Meng-Lan / Fu Jen Studies: literature & linguistics
Something may be marked as object by case morphemes, clitics, postpositions, word order or some formative of topicalisation.
Unmarked object in the Uralic languages. A diachronic typological ... by Havas, Ferenc / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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