/ English Dictionary

TOPICALIZE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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)

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