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TOPICALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does topicalize mean?
• TOPICALIZE (verb)
The verb TOPICALIZE has 1 sense:
1. emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
Familiarity information: TOPICALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Past simple: topicalized
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Past participle: topicalized
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-ing form: topicalizing
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Sense 1
Meaning:
Emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call 'Yiddish Movement'
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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