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...

sentence may include a topic, but the topic is not part of sentence's core statement. Japanese is often called a topic-prominent language because of its strong...

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,...

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

(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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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;...

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...

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

to construct a passive voice. See: Voice (grammar)#Voices in topic-prominent languages. Michael Wines (2009-03-11). "A Dirty Pun Tweaks China's Online...

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

LINCOM EUROPA. Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Punjabi Wikimedia Commons has media related to Punjabi language. Wikivoyage has a phrasebook for Punjabi...

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

models see language as having developed from music, a view already espoused by Rousseau, Herder, Humboldt, and Charles Darwin. A prominent proponent of...

languages of this kind there is usually a pragmatically neutral constituent order that is most commonly encountered in each language. Topic-prominent...

Philosophy of language refers to the philosophical study of the nature of language. It investigates the relationship between language, language users, and...