Overview
This volume is about "dislocation," i.e. 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.
- | Author: Benjamin Shaer
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 486 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0415808197
- | ISBN-13: 9780415808194
