topiaalinen
Topiaalinen is a hypothetical linguistic term used to describe a discourse-driven alignment system in which grammatical structure is determined primarily by the topic of the discourse rather than by traditional syntactic roles such as subject and object. In a topiaalinen model, topics foregrounded in a clause can influence verb agreement, case marking, and argument licensing, producing a dynamic alignment pattern that shifts with discourse salience.
The term appears to be a coinage combining topi- (topic) with the Finnish adjectival suffix -aalinen, and
Topiaalinen is related to topic-prominent and discourse-oriented grammars, but it emphasizes a flexible, topic-based encoding rather
As a concept with limited empirical support, topiaalinen remains speculative. It is often used as a thought