Materials on left dislocation
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Materials on left dislocation
（Linguistik aktuell, v. 14）
J. Benjamins, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places. These articles, by Van Riemsdijk & Zwarts, Rodman, Hirschbuehler, Vat, Cinque and Zaenen, contain the first arguments that pertain to the major questions about Left Dislocation (for example whether movement or base-generation is involved), and they present the rationale for the now standard distinctions between Hanging Topic LD, Contrastive LD, and Clitic LD.
In Part II a number of recent contributions to the grammar of Left Dislocation are brought together. In these articles, by Anagnostopoulou, Demirdache, Escobar, Van Hoof and Wiltschko, new aspects are being explored such as the relationship between LD and the grammar of focus and the role of clitic doubling and its semantic effects in Clitic LD. Furthermore, the empirical basis is broadened to encompass more languages. Finally, these articles explore the relationship between LD and a number of apparently unrelated constructions such as split topicalization.
The book constitutes an indispensable tool for any linguist who seriously works on dislocation phenomena.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Left Dislocation
- 3. I. Basic Texts
- 4. Left Dislocation in Dutch and Status of Copying Rules (by Riemsdijk, Henk van)
- 5. On Left Dislocation (by Rodman, Robert)
- 6. On the Source of Lefthand NPs in French (by Hirschbuhler, Paul)
- 7. Left Dislocation, Connectedness and Reconstruction (by Vat, Jan)
- 8. 'Topic' Constructions in some European Languages and 'Connectedness' (by Cinque, Guglielmo)
- 9. Contrastive Dislocation in Dutch and Icelandic (by Zaenen, Annie)
- 10. II. Current Developments
- 11. Clitic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation (by Anagnostopoulou, Elena)
- 12. Dislocation, Resumption and Weakest Crossover (by Demirdache, Hamida)
- 13. Clitic Left Dislocation and other Relatives (by Escobar, Linda)
- 14. Left Dislocation and Split Topics in Brabant Dutch (by Hoof, Hanneke van)
- 15. Parasitic Operators in German Left-Dislocation (by Wiltschko, Martina)
- 16. Index
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