Book Details
Format
Kindle
Language
English
Published
May 15, 2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10
661193250X
ISBN-13
9786611932503
Description
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.