Dislocated Elements in Discourse: Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives

by Shaer, Benjamin; Cook, Philippa; Frey, Werner; Maienborn, Claudia

• ISBN13: 9780203929247
• ISBN10: 0203929241
• Copyright: 2008-12-22
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This volume is about "dislocation," i.e. 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

Structure of Dislocation

On Left Dislocation in the Recent History of English: Theory and Data Hand in Hand

The Left Clausal Periphery: Clitic Left Dislocation in Italian and Left Dislocation in German

Echo Questions and Split CP

On Split CPs and the 'Perfectness' of Language

Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree Growth

Content of Dislocation

Sentential Particles and Clausal Typing in Venetan Dialects

Discourse Particles in the Left Periphery

Noncanonical Word Order and the Distribution of Inferrable Information in English

Information Structuring inside Constituents: The Case of Chichewa Split NPs

Rethinking the Narrow Scope Reading of Contrastive Topic

Fronted Quantificational Adverbs

Beyond the Sentence

Parenthetical Adverbials: The Radical Orphanage Approach

Postscript: Problems and Solutions for Orphan Analyses

German and English Left-Peripheral Elements and the "Orphan" Analysis of Non-Integration

On the Correlative Nature of Hungarian Left-Peripheral Relatives

Defined by their Left: Wh-Relative Clauses in German

Contributors

Index

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