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Left-dislocation revisited [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1995 The aim of this paper is to provide syntactic evidence that left-dislocated NPs (LDs) do not belong inside the structure of the sentences with which they are usually associated.
Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
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Left Dislocation in Indonesian
Humanus: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-ilmu Humaniora, 2021 This paper aims to identify the constructions of Left Dislocation (=LD) in spoken and written Indonesian. The constituents of LD fill their alternative positions within the core clause with the form of ‘-nya’ in Indonesian syntax. The Left Dislocation of
Heejin Jung
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Left Dislocation: a typological overview [PDF]
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 The Left Dislocation construction is a typologically universal phenomenon that has received detailed analysis, from both formal and functional perspectives, in a number of genetically and areally diverse languages.
Westbury, Josh
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Left Dislocation: an exploration in linguistic typology [PDF]
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 No ...
Andrason, Alexander +2 more
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On establishing coreference in Left Dislocation constructions [PDF]
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 The phenomenon of left dislocation (LD) has received relatively little attention in the generative literature. In Government & Binding theory and early versions of Minimalist Syntax, the left-dislocated expression is conventionally taken to be base ...
Oosthuizen, Johan
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Different Types of Left Dislocation in Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 The present study introduces and examines the characteristics of different types of Left Dislocation constructions in Persian language. Left Dislocation (LD) is a construction in which an element instead of being in its original position of sentence is ...
Zeinab Homayouni +2 more
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The mosaic evolution of Left Dislocation in Xhosa
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 This paper demonstrates that the status of Clitic LD in Xhosa is a result of the mosaic evolution of Xhosa grammar. It emerges as an accumulation and combination of two more individual, distinct and, at least, initially separated developments and ...
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
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Topicalizations, left dislocations and the left-periphery
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2017 My intention in this paper is to provide as complete an overview as possible of the different types of topic phrases in Latin. After setting out the characteristics and properties of what I call Dislocations (Hanging Topics and ClLD) and Topicalizations,
Bernard Bortolussi
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Left Dislocation in Arabic: The complexity of form and meaning
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 This paper studies the complexity of L(eft) D(islocation). It demonstrates that the function that is crosslinguistically associated with LD is conveyed in Arabic by a set of LD constructions. In the analyzed corpus, these constructions belong to two main
Andrason, Alexander
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La dislocation à gauche et la focalisation
Discours, 2022 We go back over the analyses of the pragmatic-discursive function of the left dislocation of the subject in French, those that highlight the theming function and those that add a focusing function by postulating for the dislocated subject a status of ...
Lidia Lebas-Fraczak
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