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emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence

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As German topicalizes also purely given elements (see Doherty, this issue), the inverted copular version (6) does not have to indicate an additional focus for the prenominal argument.

Introduction: language-specific conditions for discourse linking and appropriateness *

Yet despite its problems, English topicalizes adjuncts under certain conditions, and the comparison of English texts with their German translations tells us which conditions these are.

In contrast to English, German also topicalizes adjuncts if they do not belong to an alternative set, but the result secures a balanced distribution of information corresponding to the pattern 2 (3) 1.

For instance, in the following example German topicalizes the adjunct, as it is less relevant than the rest:

Topic-worthiness in German and English *

(18.) A topicalizes a few adverbials, some demonstrative pronouns as accusative objects, e.g.

Finiteness and children with specific language impairment: an exploratory study *

Since VP topicalization in English is, like topicalization more generally, constrained so that it topicalizes VPs to the front of finite clauses only, the ungrammaticality of (ii) can be explained as an island effect that occurs when the topicalized VP moves out of the infinitival clause to find a finite clause host.

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