Editing Topic and comment (section)

=== In other languages===
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* In [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[Korean language|Korean]], the topic is usually marked with a [[postposition]] such as {{Nihongo||は|-wa}} or 는/은, ''-(n)eun'' respectively, which comes after the noun or phrase that is being topicalized.
* In [[Côte d'Ivoire]] [[French language|French]], the topic is marked by the postposition "là". The topic can be, but is not necessarily a noun or a nominal group, for example: « Voiture-là est jolie deh » ("That car is pretty"); « Aujourd'hui-là il fait chaud » ("It's hot on that day"); « Pour toi-là n'est pas comme pour moi hein » ("For you it's not the same as for me, huh"); and « Nous qui sommes ici-là, on attend ça seulement » ("We who are here, we are waiting for that only").
* So-called [[free word order]] languages such as [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Czech language|Czech]], and to some certain extent [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[German language|German]], use word order as the primary means, and the topic usually precedes the focus. For example, in some [[Slavic languages]] such as Czech and Russian, both orders are possible. The order with the comment sentence-initial is referred to as ''subjective'' ([[Vilém Mathesius]] invented the term and opposed it to ''objective'') and expresses certain emotional involvement.  The two orders are distinguished by intonation.
* In [[Modern Hebrew]], a topic may follow its comment. For example, the syntactic subject of this sentence is an expletive זה ("ze", lit. "this"):
{{fs interlinear|lang=he|indent=3
| זה מאד מענין הספר הזה
| ze meʾod meʿanyen ha-sefer ha-ze
| this very interesting book this
| "This book is very interesting."}}
* In [[American Sign Language#Topic and main clauses|American Sign Language]], a topic can be declared at the beginning of a sentence (indicated by raised eyebrows and head tilt) describing the referent, and the rest of the sentence describes what happens to that referent.