Thank you all for taking the time to explain. After reading the descriptions of what marked/emphasized/topicalized actually mean, everything became clearer. I believe, my confusion was mainly due to the fact, that I couldn't differentiate between these terms. But I have one final (hopefully..) question: jIH:
Lets remove the ambiguity, of whether it's singular of plural, by writing: {vIghro'mey tIQ'e' novmey bIH}. Would you accept this > to say "as for ancient cats, they are aliens" ? SuStel: I would accept it as a marked way to emphasize vIghro'mey tIQ. But you don't really mean to emphasize the phrase, just topicalize it. It already gets topicalized as novmey bIH vIghro'mey tIQ'e'.
I understand now (finally), what topicalized means. And, thank qeylIS, I understand too, what "marked way to emphasize" means. But I wonder.. If I want to say "the ANCIENT CATS are aliens", emphasizing the "ancient cats", but in an unmarked way, then how do I it ? If I just write {novmey bIH vIghro'mey tIQ'e'}, then the {vIghro'mey tIQ} is topicalized by the {-'e'}, but not emphasized.. ~ m. qunen'oS Ca'Non Ca'NonoywIj..