Re: topic/compliment & Sanskrit script

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> Actually, that was very useful!  I'm doing it right, then!
>
> Topic is, to pare it down to the bare essentials, an emphasis?
I would tend to think of it that way, yes.  :-p  What Korean does using
the topic particle (there's that pesky term again), English speakers tend
to do by stressing the appropriate word (e.g. "*Mary* killed the wombat"
vs. "Mary *killed* the wombat" vs. "Mary killed the *wombat*").  Or at
least I do.  It may work differently in other languages, and I'm
certainly no expert.

YHL