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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781657203321

Autore

Anagnostopoulou Elena

Titolo

Materials on Left Dislocation [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997

ISBN

1-283-23424-6

9786613234247

90-272-8236-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Altri autori (Persone)

RiemsdijkHenk van

ZwartsFrans

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Generative grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax

Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; CONTENTS; LEFT DISLOCATION; Part I: Basic Texts; Left Dislocation in Dutch and Status of Copying Rules; On Left Dislocation; On the Source of Lefthand NPs in French; Left Dislocation, Connectedness and Reconstruction; 'Topic' Constructions in some European Languages and 'Connectedness'; Contrastive Dislocation in Dutch an Icelandic; Part II: Current Developments; Clitic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation; Dislocation, Resumption and Weakest Crossover; Clitic Left Dislocation and other Relatives; Left Dislocation and Split Topics in Bahant Dutch

Parasitic Operators in German Left-DislocationIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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 betw