'These hands, they are apt enough to dislocate and tear thy flesh'
On left dislocation in the recent history of the English language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19513180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Javier Pérez Guerra (0000-0002-8882-667X, Universidade de Vigo), David Tizón-Couto (0000-0003-0788-7954, Universidade de Vigo) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 449-464 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ZAS Papers in Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1435-9588 • E-ISSN: 1435-9588 |
| Publisher | University Library J. C. Senckenberg (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21248/zaspil.35.2004.237 |
| OpenAlex | W3119960226 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
As part of a major project on the syntactic organisation of written discourse in the recent history of the English language, this paper tackles the distribution of sentences comprising left-dislocated constituents in a corpus of texts from late Middle English onwards. Once the phenomenon of left dislocation has been properly defined, this investigation will concentrate on the analysis of the corpus in the following directions: (i) statistical evolution of left dislocation in the recent history of the English language; (ii) the influence of orality and genre on left dislocation; (iii) information conveyed by the left-dislocated material, that is, the discourse-based referentiality potential of the left-dislocated constituents in terms of recoverability, and its association with end-focus; and (iv) grammatical complexity of the left-dislocated material and its association with end-weight
Dislocation · Linguistics · Optics · Orality · Phenomenon · Physics · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Word Order in Discourse
Directions in Functional Linguistics
Topic as a Discourse Notion
The Theory of Functional Grammar. Part 2. Complex and Derived Constructions
Universals of topic-comment structure
Longman grammar of spoken and written English
A Comprehensive grammar of the English language
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Subject and Topic
Studies in Early Modern English
Subjectivity and subjectivisation
Subjectivity and Subjectivisation
On left dislocation 1
From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction
The Theory of Functional Grammar
Word Order After the Loss of the Verb-Second Constraint or the Importance of Early Modern English in the Fixation of Syntactic and Informative (Un-)Markedness
Left and right dislocations
On the Rise of Epistemic Meanings in English
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |