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Conlangery #53: Topicalization

Conlangery Podcast

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Topic Prominent Language Versus Subject Prominente Language

In English, we don't do this. We come up with these hamfisted kind of clefting structures like as for him. Many languages just move things around to topicalize them without any sort of either kind of morphology that can be mixed. It's a pragmatic thing more than it is a grammatical thing in many languages. So right in the simplest case, you announce what you're going to talk about and you say something about it. But there are all sorts of weird things that follow from that, and that's what we're going to talks about mostly today.

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