Right peripheral fragments : right dislocation and related phenomena in Romance / Javier Fernández-Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernández-Sánchez, Javier, author.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Volume 258.

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; Volume 258

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Clauses.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Word order.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the 'dislocated' constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under identity with an antecedent clause. Although Romance RD is a fertile area of research, the consequences of the biclausal analysis remain unexplored in these languages. This monograph intends to fill this gap. Adopting this approach not only solves some issues that have always been at the core of dislocation structures in general; it also allows us to uncover novel sets of data and to provide straightforward explanations for well-known generalizations. Further, it brings RD along with a set of phenomena which are structurally very similar, like afterthoughts or split questions, which have been independently argued to display a bisentential structure. Under alternative, monoclausal approaches to RD, the striking similarities between these phenomena must be rendered anecdotal"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A tale of two clauses

Previous accounts

Locality without movement

Other right peripheral fragments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027261694

9027261695