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TOPICALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they topicalize ... he / she / it topicalizes
Past simple: topicalized
Past participle: topicalized
-ing form: topicalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
Example:
The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call 'Yiddish Movement'
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "topicalize" is one way to...):
accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
topicalization ((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)
