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Conlangery #53: Topicalization

Conlangery Podcast

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The Confusion of Topics

focus versus topic is going to be known or recoverable information, old news. Whereas focused information is much more likely either to be new, newly introduced, or in contrast to something else. Some common patterns for topic construction that will maybe help you think about this if you don't have the benefit of studying Chinese or Japanese are part of the whole constructions where English or romance languages use a part of construction.

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