Left-Dislocated Structures in Spanish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4884238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugenia Casielles-Suarez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 326 |
| Publication date | 2003-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20062867 |
| OpenAlex | W2326940819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Terms such as Left-dislocation and Topicalization, which originally referred to particular constructions in English, have also been used to refer to apparently similar topicalizing strategies in Spanish. However, a deeper analysis of the structures observed in Spanish shows that they differ from the English constructions syntactically, pragmatically and phonologically. Thus, what has been considered to be the Spanish equivalent of English Left-dislocation is in fact a different construction which involves a clitic, and does not show any of the restrictions of English left-dislocation. Moreover, Spanish also has a more restricted type of Left-dislocation which has a strong pronoun, and does behave like English Left-dislocation. Finally, what looks prima facie like a Topicalization in Spanish is in fact an instance of Left-dislocation with no overt pronoun. From this perspective, while Spanish has no Topicalization, it shows three types of Left-dislocation: a clitic Left-dislocation, a strong-pronoun left-dislocation, and a clitic left-dislocation with no overt clitic
History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Givenness, Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics, and Point of View
The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery
Subject and Topic
On left dislocation 1
Topicalization, Focus-Movement, and Yiddish-Movement
Pragmatics and Linguistics
English Prosodic Stress and Spanish Sentence Order
The notion of 'givenness' and its relations to presupposition and to theme
Theme, Rheme, and Word Order
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |