Dislocated Elements in Discourse
Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-39598-4
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 22nd December 2008
- Pages: 486
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About the Book
This volume is about 'dislocation' – the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. Dislocation encompasses a wide range of linguistic phenomena, related to nominal and adverbial expressions and to the information structuring notions of topic and focus; and takes intriguingly different forms across languages. This book reveals some of the empirical richness of dislocation and some key puzzles related to its syntactic, semantic, and discourse analysis.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Structure of Dislocation
On Left Dislocation in the Recent History of English: Theory and Data Hand in Hand
Javier Pérez-Guerra and David Tizón-Couto
The Left Clausal Periphery: Clitic Left Dislocation in Italian and Left Dislocation in German
Günther Grewendorf
Echo Questions and Split CP
Nicholas Sobin
On Split CPs and the ‘Perfectness’ of Language
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree Growth
Ruth Kempson, Jieun Kiaer, Ronnie Cann
Part II: Content of Dislocation
Sentential Particles and Clausal Typing in Venetan Dialects
Nicola Munaro and Cecilia Poletto
Discourse Particles in the Left Periphery
Malte Zimmermann
Noncanonical Word Order and the Distribution of Inferrable Information in English
Betty J. Birner
Information Structuring inside Constituents: The Case of Chichewa Split NPs
Sam Mchombo and Yukiko Morimoto
Rethinking the Narrow Scope Reading of Contrastive Topic
Beáta Gyuris
Fronted Quantificational Adverbs
Ariel Cohen
Part III: Beyond the Sentence
Parenthetical Adverbials: The Radical Orphanage Approach
Liliane Haegeman
Postscript: Problems and Solutions for Orphan Analyses
Liliane Haegeman, Benjamin Shaer, Werner Frey
German and English Left-Peripheral Elements and the "Orphan" Analysis of Non-Integration
Benjamin Shaer
On the Correlative Nature of Hungarian Left-Peripheral Relatives
Anikó Lipták
Defined by their Left: Wh-Relative Clauses in German
Anke Holler
Contributors
Index
About the Author(s)
Benjamin Shaer, Philippa Cook, Werner Frey, and Claudia Maienborn are affiliated with the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.
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