what does topicalize mean?
TOPICALIZE as VERB
- Meaning
- emphasize by putting have stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
Usage Example(s)
- Speakers topicalize more often than they realize
- The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement”
Hypernyms(s) topicalize is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
Derived(s)
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