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

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Shaer , Philippa Cook , Werner Frey , and Claudia Maienborn are affiliated with the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. Zusammenfassung Deals with "dislocation" - the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. This book reveals some of the empirical richness of dislocation and some key puzzles related to its syntactic, semantic, and discourse analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Structure of Dislocation On Left Dislocation in the Recent History of English: Theory and Data Hand in Hand Javier Pérez-Guerra and David Tizón-Couto The Left Clausal Periphery: Clitic Left Dislocation in Italian and Left Dislocation in German Günther Grewendorf Echo Questions and Split CP Nicholas Sobin On Split CPs and the ‘Perfectness’ of Language Frederick J. Newmeyer Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree Growth Ruth Kempson, Jieun Kiaer, Ronnie Cann Part II: Content of Dislocation Sentential Particles and Clausal Typing in Venetan Dialects Nicola Munaro and Cecilia Poletto Discourse Particles in the Left Periphery Malte Zimmermann Noncanonical Word Order and the Distribution of Inferrable Information in English Betty J. Birner Information Structuring inside Constituents: The Case of Chichewa Split NPs Sam Mchombo and Yukiko Morimoto Rethinking the Narrow Scope Reading of Contrastive Topic Beáta Gyuris Fronted Quantificational Adverbs Ariel Cohen Part III: Beyond the Sentence Parenthetical Adverbials: The Radical Orphanage Approach Liliane Haegeman Postscript: Problems and Solutions for Orphan Analyses Liliane Haegeman, Benjamin Shaer, Werner Frey German and English Left-Peripheral Elements and the "Orphan" Analysis of Non-Integration Benjamin Shaer On the Correlative Nature of Hungarian Left-Peripheral Relatives Anikó Lipták Defined by their Left: Wh-Relative Clauses in German Anke Holler Contributors Index ...

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• Authors: Benjamin Cook Shaer
• Assisted by: Philippa Cook (Editor), Cook Philippa (Editor), Werner Frey (Editor), Frey Werner (Editor), Claudia Maienborn (Editor), Maienborn Claudia (Editor), Benjamin Shaer (Editor), Shaer Benjamin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2008
• EAN: 9780415395984
• ISBN: 978-0-415-39598-4
• No. of pages: 8
• Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics