A topic is a noun phrase that expresses what a sentence is about, and to which the rest of the sentence is related as a comment.
(English, Japanese, Tagalog)
Initial position in word order, as in the following:
That new Mazda, I’d like to test-drive it.
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.