Dislocated Elements in Discourse
| Author | : Benjamin Shaer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 2009-01-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781134156344 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1134156340 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (340 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Dislocated Elements in Discourse by : Benjamin Shaer
Download or read book Dislocated Elements in Discourse written by Benjamin Shaer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.