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topicalization

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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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Noun1.topicalization - (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentencetopicalization - (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English; "`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization"
linguistics - the scientific study of language
emphasis - special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
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Topicalization and the processing of expository prose by children: Mediating effects of cognitive styles and content familiarity.
Factors affecting the comprehension of global and local main idea by Wang, Danhua / Journal of College Reading and Learning
Seventy-seven case studies address, for example, the accusative plus infinitive construction in English, comparative deletion and subdeletion, inverse linking, logophoricity, preposition stranding, quantifier scope ambiguities, split topicalization, stylistics fronting, temporal reference, topicalization in Asian languages, verb particle constructions, and wh-in-situ, among other topics.
The Blackwell companion to syntax; 5v. (CD-ROM included) by Reference & Research Book News
But before we discuss variation in this category, it should be noted that no idioms permit certain transformations such as topicalization (*the bucket he kicked last week), conjunction reduction or pronominalization (*he kicked the bucket and she will kick it too).
Variation in multi-word units: the absent dimension by Abu-Ssaydeh, Abdul-Fattah / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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