Dislocated Elements in Discourse

<p>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.</p> <p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Part I: Structure of Dislocation</p><p>On Left Dislocation in the Recent History of English: Theory and Data Hand in Hand</p><p>Javier Pérez-Guerra and David Tizón-Couto </p><p>The Left Clausal Periphery: Clitic Left Dislocation in Italian and Left Dislocation in German</p><p>Günther Grewendorf</p><p>Echo Questions and Split CP</p><p>Nicholas Sobin</p><p>On Split CPs and the ‘Perfectness’ of Language</p><p>Frederick J. Newmeyer </p><p>Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree Growth</p><p>Ruth Kempson, Jieun Kiaer, Ronnie Cann</p><p>Part II: Content of Dislocation</p><p>Sentential Particles and Clausal Typing in Venetan Dialects</p><p>Nicola Munaro and Cecilia Poletto</p><p>Discourse Particles in the Left Periphery</p><p>Malte Zimmermann</p><p>Noncanonical Word Order and the Distribution of Inferrable Information in English</p><p>Betty J. Birner</p><p>Information Structuring inside Constituents: The Case of Chichewa Split NPs</p><p>Sam Mchombo and Yukiko Morimoto</p><p>Rethinking the Narrow Scope Reading of Contrastive Topic</p><p>Beáta Gyuris</p><p>Fronted Quantificational Adverbs</p><p>Ariel Cohen</p><p>Part III: Beyond the Sentence</p><p>Parenthetical Adverbials: The Radical Orphanage Approach</p><p>Liliane Haegeman</p><p>Postscript: Problems and Solutions for Orphan Analyses</p><p>Liliane Haegeman, Benjamin Shaer, Werner Frey</p><p>German and English Left-Peripheral Elements and the "Orphan" Analysis of Non-Integration</p><p>Benjamin Shaer</p><p>On the Correlative Nature of Hungarian Left-Peripheral Relatives</p><p>Anikó Lipták</p><p>Defined by their Left: Wh-Relative Clauses in German</p><p>Anke Holler</p><p>Contributors</p><p>Index</p>