| There are not many comparative studies of topicalization and related phenomena in the Semitic languages. |
| But when the sentences undergo topicalization, the original M-contrast in reference vanishes. |
| Relative clauses are used as a means of topicalization of a possessor of a genitive construction, as nominalization of a clause and in questions. |
| Second, topicalization was found to have been used to introduce new characters, ideas, events, objects, etc. |
| However, I propose that in the case of topicalization, young deaf children have exploited an alternative, prosodic way of marking topics that is easily overlooked. |
| In many languages, changes in word order occur due to topicalization or in questions. |
