Right peripheral fragments

Right peripheral fragments: right dislocation and related phenomena in romance

by FERNANDEZ-SANCHEZ, Javier

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"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…

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  • Full title :Right peripheral fragments : right dislocation and related phenomena in romance / Javier Fernández-Sánchez.

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"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"--

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  • Publication Date:2020

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"This monograph is a revised version of my PhD dissertation, defended in June 2017 in Bellaterra, Spain"--Author's acknowledgements.

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  • Description:vii, 214 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789027204776, 9027204772
  • oclc:on1121605060
  • LC Classification:PC215
  • Dewey Decimal:440/.045

Table of Contents

A tale of two clauses -- Previous accounts -- Locality without movement -- Other right peripheral fragments.

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Subjects

Langues romanes -- Ordre des mots Langues romanes -- Propositions Langues romanes -- Syntaxe Romance languages -- Clauses Romance languages -- Word order

Writers

FERNANDEZ-SANCHEZ, Javier

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