Local English word record

topicalize

verb · 1 sense

emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence

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Examples

  • Speakers topicalize more often than they realize
  • The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'

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