A topic-prominent language is a language that organizes its syntax to emphasize the topic–comment structure of the sentence. The term is best known in...

moment to moment. But whereas topic-prominent languages might use this approach by default or obligately, in subject-prominent ones such as English it is...

many other Asian languages, is often called a topic-prominent language, which means it has a strong tendency to indicate the topic separately from the...

However, Hungarian is a topic-prominent language, and so has a word order that depends not only on syntax but also on the topic–comment structure of the...

shown that Brazilian Portuguese is a topic-prominent or topic- and subject-prominent language. Sentences with topic are extensively used in Portuguese,...

Agent-Object-Verb (AOV) instead of Subject-Object-Verb (SOV). Topic-prominent languages, such as Mandarin, focus their grammars less on the subject-object...

of the English subject is instead the topic in Japanese and thus marked by wa, reflecting the topic-prominent nature of Japanese grammar. Since these...

(object-subject-verb) Topic-prominent language: much of Bougainville Island, Choiseul Island, some parts of Santa Ysabel Island Wave model of language change Remote...

both examples are adapted from Tanaka et al. (2011)) Although a topic-prominent language, Japanese employs the passive voice quite frequently, and has two...

languages lack it. It differs from a subject in that it puts more emphasis on the item and can be used with words in other roles as well. The topic marker...

to English prepositions. Hungarian is a topic-prominent language and so its word order depends on the topic-comment structure of the sentence (that is...

Among major languages, some which might be called topic pro-drop languages are Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin. Topic prominent languages like Korean,...

clauses in addition to subjects. Being a Chinese language, Cantonese is also a topic-prominent language and thus features left dislocation. For instance:...

information) in a sentence; Czech has therefore been described as a topic-prominent language. Although Czech has a periphrastic passive construction (like English)...

English is a subject-prominent language, at the discourse level it tends to use a topic-comment structure, where the known information (topic) precedes the new...

reading of characters. Like other Sinitic languages, Standard Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent organization and subject–verb–object (SVO)...

this order is often violated because Cantonese is a topic-prominent language. Unlike synthetic languages, seldom do words indicate time, gender and number...

mo ŋwa Hama COMP rice eat Subject {} Object Verb Hama ate rice. Topic-prominent language Subject–verb–object Object–subject–verb Object–verb–subject Verb–object–subject...

subject-verb-object (SVO), but utterances may be restructured so as to be topic-prominent. Vietnamese also has verb serialization. In sentences, the head of...

the topic in the early 1990s. Linguists, archaeologists, psychologists, and anthropologists have renewed the investigation into the origin of language with...

speakers accent words in discourse. Information structure Topic–comment Topic-prominent language Question under discussion Squiggle operator Prince, E (1981)...

has a hard or soft counterpart, and the distinction is a prominent feature of the language, which is usually shown in writing not by a change of the...

and several other null-subject languages are topic-prominent languages; some of these languages require an expressed topic in order for sentences to make...

Korean and Japanese have SOV by default, but since they are topic-prominent languages, they often seem to be OSV when the object is topicalized. Here...

linguists whether Turkish is a subject-prominent (like English) or topic-prominent (like Japanese and Korean) language, with recent scholarship implying that...

1871 only a quarter spoke French as their native language. The topic of the teaching of regional languages in public primary and secondary schools is controversial...

many other Tibeto-Burman languages, the basic word order of Akha is agent-object-verb (SOV). It is a topic-prominent language where the marking of agents...

Chinese can also be considered a topic-prominent language: there is a strong preference for sentences that begin with the topic, usually "given" or "old" information;...

Philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include...

Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...