TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pérez Guerra, Javier
A1  - Tizón-Couto, David
T1  - 'These hands, they are apt enough to dislocate and tear thy flesh' : On left dislocation in the recent history of the english language
T2  - Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop : ZAS Berlin, November 2003 / Ed.: Benjamin Shaer ... , Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 35
N2  - As part of a major project on the syntactic organisation of written discourse in the recent history of the English language, this paper tackles the distribution of sentences comprising left-dislocated constituents in a corpus of texts from late Middle English onwards. Once the phenomenon of left dislocation has been properly defined, this investigation will concentrate on the analysis of the corpus in the following directions: (i) statistical evolution of left dislocation in the recent history of the English language; (ii) the influence of orality and genre on left dislocation; (iii) information conveyed by the left-dislocated material, that is, the discourse-based referentiality potential of the left-dislocated constituents in terms of recoverability, and its association with end-focus; and (iv) grammatical complexity of the left-dislocated material and its association with end-weight.
KW  - Mündlichkeit
KW  - Schriftlichkeit
KW  - Sprachstatistik
KW  - Sprachgeschichte
KW  - Pragmatik
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Wortstellung
KW  - Extraposition
KW  - Mittelenglisch
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30909
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309093
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/193.html?&L=0%20order%20by%201000%20--
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 35
SP  - 449
EP  - 464
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -