topicalizev.

1970 Language 46 375 In 47, le tama is topicalized out of the objective case.

1976 Archivum Linguisticum 7 132 It must be some other quality inherent in pay, the ‘abstract predication’.., or more precisely, the act, action, or activity, which is topicalized and appears on the surface as -ment.

1977 Amer. Speech 1975 50 71 One important aspect of this argument is that those proposing it..question the underlying verbal status of have and regard it instead as a surface form that serves to topicalize the possessor, which in other languages would be a locative or dative.

1967 Found. Lang. 3 47 Topicalization..means that some major constituent of a sentence, such as a noun phrase, which is identical with (or has the same referent as) a constituent in the given sentence, may be generated before or after this sentence.

1978 Language 54 174 Bernard Mohan..presents some formulas and the results of a ‘grammaticality’ test..for various sentences with adverb-preposing or topicalization below and above a set of predicates.

1983 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 158 Topicalization is a stylistic rule.

1970 Language 46 375 Reversing the order of the two topicalized noun phrases is not possible; the sentence cannot be interpreted ‘the girl loves the boy’.

1980 Eng. World-wide 1 249 In the structure, only the plural marker, the locative copula, and the topicalized predicator were found to be of African origin.