Left and Right Dislocation of the G-Topic

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: excellent Università degli Studi Roma Tre (University) course: Applied Linguistics language: English abstract: In English the lowest position of the Topic in CP does not appear to be available for left realizations of the G-Topic. The reason for such unavailability remains unexplained. What is known however is that there are no recognized cases of the G-Topic dislocated on the left. In spite of this the present analysis will lead us to maintain that even in this language left dislocation of the G-Topic is present but depends on particular structural conditions of the CP and on the uniqueness of such a Topic as the only element in CP that can occupy the functional projection of TopP. This paper is divided into three main sections: in § 2 we will present an introduction to the notion of Topic and to other notions considered important to understand subjects in question. In § 3 we will explain in detail our aforementioned hypothesis; finally in § 4 we will discuss right dislocations of the G-Topic and in particular the so-called 'accented' Topic.