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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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Experiment 1 How are split topicalizations processed?
Interpretation of leftward-moved constituents: processing ... by Bader, Markus; Frazier, Lyn / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
Data, method, and theoretical framework Translations provide us with a rich empirical basis if we want to compare the language-specific conditions of topicalizations: topicalizations are discourse dependent, that is, they cannot be studied in isolation but have to be studied in context, which, in the case of written language, means texts--comparable texts in different languages.
Topic-worthiness in German and English * by Doherty, Monika / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
Topicalizations like (68d) are one argument for complex PPs.
Event paths, conflation, argument structure, and VP shells (1) by McIntyre, Andrew / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
 
 
 
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