Dislocated Elements in Discourse: Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415808197
• ISBN13: 9780415808194
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"