Topicalizations, left dislocations and the left-periphery
My intention in this paper is to provide as complete an overview as possible of the different types of topic phrases in Latin. After setting out the characteristics and properties of what I call Dislocations (Hanging Topics and ClLD) and Topicalizations, I go on to give a description of each morphol...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:183391 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/183391 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.208 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Left periphery Topic Topicalization Left dislocation Relative clause Proleptic accusative Perifèria esquerra Tòpic Topicalització Dislocació a l'esquerra Oració de relatiu Acusatiu prolèptic |
| Sumario: | My intention in this paper is to provide as complete an overview as possible of the different types of topic phrases in Latin. After setting out the characteristics and properties of what I call Dislocations (Hanging Topics and ClLD) and Topicalizations, I go on to give a description of each morphological or syntactic device employed in Latin: prepositional DP, case marking, fronting clauses. I then propose a hypothesis concerning the cartography of the left periphery in Latin. In addition, I introduce a brief description of an original way of topicalizing the subjects of embedded clauses, namely proleptic accusative construction. The main conclusion is that the cartography of Latin left periphery is not very different from that to be found in languages with fixed word order. |
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