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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793940303321

Autore

Fernández-Sánchez Javier

Titolo

Right peripheral fragments : right dislocation and related phenomena in Romance / / Javier Fernández-Sánchez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

90-272-6169-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 pages)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; ; Volume 258

Disciplina

440.045

Soggetti

Romance languages - Clauses

Romance languages - Word order

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A tale of two clauses -- Previous accounts -- Locality without movement -- Other right peripheral fragments.

Sommario/riassunto

"In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the 'dislocated' constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under identity with an antecedent clause. Although Romance RD is a fertile area of research, the consequences of the biclausal analysis remain unexplored in these languages. This monograph intends to fill this gap. Adopting this approach not only solves some issues that have always been at the core of dislocation structures in general; it also allows us to uncover novel sets of data and to provide straightforward explanations for well-known generalizations. Further, it brings RD along with a set of phenomena which are structurally very similar, like afterthoughts or split questions, which have been independently argued to display a bisentential structure. Under alternative, monoclausal approaches to RD, the striking similarities between these phenomena must be rendered anecdotal"--