topicalization

IPA: tˈɑpʌkʌɫɪzˈeɪʃʌn

Examples of "topicalization" in Sentences

In addition, the terms "topic," "topicalization," and "focus" are used in very different ways in the linguistic literature.
Outside of poetic writing and certain syntactic alternations like topicalization, the word order of Modern English is Subject-Verb-Object.
For instance, they used inflectional markers in an inconsistent way and often failed to respect the structure-dependence of the rules governing topicalization in that language. [
As linguists themselves note (see Appendix), definitions are not yet available which are stringent enough to allow tagging for topic, topicalization, and focus according to anything like a straightforward algorithm.