Date: 03-Jun-2008 From: Rachel Markowitz <Rachel.Markowitztaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: Dislocated Elements in Discourse: Shaer, Cook, Frey, Maienborn (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Dislocated Elements in Discourse
Subtitle: Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
Published: 2008
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Editor: Benjamin Shaer
Editor: Philippa Cook
Editor: Werner Frey
Editor: Claudia Maienborn
Electronic: ISBN: 9780203929247 Pages: 728 Price: U.S. $ 140.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415395984 Pages: 728 Price: U.S. $ 140.00
Abstract:
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.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax