n06484279
| type | n |
| lex_filenum | 10 |
| def | (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence |
| def | placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English |
| examples | `Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization |
| Outgoing links | |
| Hypernym | emphasis |
| Domain of synset - TOPIC | linguistics |
| Derivationally related form | topicalization → topicalize |
| Incoming links | |
| Member of this domain - TOPIC | linguistics |
| Hyponym | emphasis |
| Derivationally related form | topicalize → topicalization |
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