Object topicalization shares two functional properties with the passive: foregrounding of the patient and de-topicalization of the agent. This fact makes one wonder why the former occurs far less frequently in written text. The present paper is an attempt to illuminate some properties of object topicalization not shared by the passive. It is argued that while object topicalization may de-topica...

Introduction The topicalization of partial verbal projections in German (henceforth: pvp topicalization)

The present study sought to investigate whether there is any difference between topicalization processes in English and Persian structures among EFL learners.50 female students of Jahad Daneshgahi English Language Institute in Qazvin participated in this study. All of the participants were native speakers of Persian studying in Jahad Daneshgahi English Language Institute in Qazvin, Iran. The pa...

Topicalization and focalization are syntactic issues studied in a variety of languages. is defined as the proposing constituent to beginning sentence. It has old information rest sentence about it. Focalization, on other hand, process which may stay put its canonical position represented by relativizer or be preposed, but bearing new information. To study these issues, we Zanjani dialect, an of...

Some natural languages grammatically allow different types of changing word orders, such as object scrambling and topicalization. Scrambling and topicalization are more related to syntax and semantics/phonology, respectively. Here we hypothesized that scrambling should activate the left frontal regions, while topicalization would affect the bilateral temporal regions. To examine such distinct e...