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Left dislocation and subordination in Avatime (Kwa)

open access: yes, 2014
Left dislocation is characterized by a sentence-initial element which is crossreferenced in the remainder of the sentence, and often set off by an intonation break. Because of these properties, left dislocation has been analyzed as an extraclausal phenomenon.
Van Putten, S.
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Materials on Left Dislocation

1997
Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places.
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Connectivity in left-dislocation and the composition of the left periphery

Linguistic Variation, 2015
This paper proposes a crosslinguistically uniform analysis of Left-dislocation constructions, according to which left-dislocated XPs are elliptical sentence fragments surfacing in linear juxtaposition to their host clause. The analysis is shown to provide a principled solution toCinque’s Paradox: dislocated XPs are extra-sentential constituents akin to
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Left dislocation in French

2014
A number of studies of Left Dislocation (LD) in spoken French within the Interactional Linguistics (IL) framework (de Fornel 1988; Pekarek Doehler 2001; Chevalier 2011b) have been critical of the information-structure analyses of this construction as set forth in Lambrecht (1981, 1994) and Barnes (1985). This discussion attempts to clarify the original
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Copy left dislocation

2000
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Grohmann, Kleanthes K.   +1 more
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Left-Dislocated Structures in Spanish

Hispania, 2003
Terms such as Left-dislocation and Topicalization, which originally referred to particular constructions in English, have also been used to refer to apparently similar topicalizing strategies in Spanish. However, a deeper analysis of the structures observed in Spanish shows that they differ from the English constructions syntactically, pragmatically ...
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Left-dislocated strings in Modern English epistolary prose

2016
This paper investigates the formal and functional features of strings that include both a left-dislocated constituent and a coreferring resumptive in the subsequent clause in Modern English letters and diaries. Such left-dislocated strings embody, to differing degrees, the reportedly speech-like and informal contemporary Left Dislocation construction ...
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