| 释义 |
ˈtopicalize, v.
[f. topical a. + -ize.]
trans. To make into a grammatical topic. Usu. pass.
1970Language XLVI. 375 In 47, le tama is topicalized out of the objective case. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 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. 1977Amer. Speech 1975 L. 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.
Hence topicaliˈzation; ˈtopicalized ppl. a.
1967Foundations of Lang. III. 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. 1970Language XLVI. 375 Reversing the order of the two topicalized noun phrases is not possible; the sentence cannot be interpreted ‘the girl loves the boy’. 1978[see preposing vbl. n. s.v. prepose v. 2 a]. 1980English World-Wide I. 249 In the structure, only the plural marker, the locative copula, and the topicalized predicator were found to be of African origin. 1983Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 158 Topicalization is a stylistic rule. |