Thinking in the right direction

An ellipsis analysis of right-dislocation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19437338
AutoresDana Ott (0000-0002-9573-2348, University of Groningen), Dennis Ott, Mark De Vries
Ano2012
Volume29
Páginas123-134
Data de publicação2012-11-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics in the Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0929-7332 • E-ISSN: 1569-9919
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/avt.29.10ott
OpenAlexW1992713262
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas14

We propose to analyze right-dislocation constructions in terms of clausal coordination, coupled with ellipsis. While neither rightward movement nor base-generation of backgrounded and afterthought phrases is descriptively accurate, we show that the facts follow straightforwardly on an analysis that takes the dislocated phrase to be the surface remnant of a second clause that is underlyingly parallel to the host clause and reduced by ellipsis at PF. Right-dislocated XPs are thus theoretically assimilated to sluiced wh -phrases, fragment answers, and other sentential fragments. We furthermore suggest that the two clauses in right-dislocation are syntactically related by an abstract coordinating head, making right-dislocation an instance of specifying coordination

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