Topicalization
Pattern
Moved element→sentence-initial topic position — fronting for topichood
Definition
Moving an element to the front of a sentence to establish it as the topic — a marked word order that signals 'this is what I'm going to talk about' before delivering the comment.
Examples
Example 1
'This problem, we cannot ignore.' — 'this problem' is topicalized by being moved to sentence-initial position from its canonical object position after the verb.
AI Detection Note
AI almost never topicalizes in the syntactic sense (moving objects or complements to sentence-initial position). This kind of marked word order requires rhetorical confidence that AI text typically lacks.
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