Definition
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A topic is a noun phrase that expresses what a sentence is about, and to which the rest of the sentence is related as a comment. |
Examples
(English, Japanese, Tagalog)
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Initial position in word order, as in the following:
That new Mazda, I’d like to test-drive it.
- In Japanese or Tagalog, the marking of a noun phrase
Sources 4
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 239
- Crystal 1980, 358
- Levinson 1983, 88
- Andrews, A. 1985, 77–78, 80