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(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
`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization
How To Use topicalization In A Sentence
- `Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization
- Topicalization is subject to the semantic constraint of operator-variable referential dependency in RT in light of the deficiencies of locality constraint in syntax.