Overview

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.

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Author:   Benjamin Shaer ,  Philippa Cook ,  Werner Frey ,  Claudia Maienborn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9780415808194

ISBN 10:   0415808197
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   15 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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"

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Benjamin Shaer, Philippa Cook, Werner Frey, and Claudia Maienborn are affiliated with the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.

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