What do you with topicalization in this context?Creyeditor wrote: ↑21 Dec 2023 13:53 I was thinking about how to deal with topic and focus and foreground and background in Omlueuet. Right now the word order is OVS. I thought maybe the object is backgrounded or topicalized in these constructions and there is a focus on the subject. I was then thinking, that I could topicalize the subject by fronting and leave behind a resumptive pronoun, yielding a SOV[S:resumptive pronoun] order for topicalized subjects or focused objects. I feel like this fits the vibe of Omlueuet but I also really like rigid OVS. Maybe the topicalized subject could get an oblique case? What do you guys think?
It seems that all(?) languages have a topicalization construction where the topic is somehow fronted (passives etc.), but it varies much important it is, ie. how often it is used. I'm very interested to see counterexamples!
It could be interesting that topicality is morphologically marked without changes in word order. Subjects are quite topical in the first place, so what does topicalization really express?