Topicalization: the rhetorical strategies it serves and the interpretive strategies it imposes

Topicalization: the rhetorical strategies it serves and the interpretive strategies it imposes

Despite evidence to the contrary, many linguists persist in regarding topicalization as a purely grammatical "structure" to be accounted for by increasingly arbitrary & unmotivated syntactic or semantic rules or some combination of the two. The examples discussed in this essay suggest,...

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