What is the meaning of topicalize?

verb

  • Emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence.
    • usage: "Speakers topicalize more often than they realize"; "The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'"
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