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Old English left-dislocations: Their structure and information status
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Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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12. Februar 2008
Abstract
The structure and discourse correlates of left-dislocations are discussed and compared with those that have been identified in Present Day English. Significant factors in Old English are shown to be the animacy and quantificational status of the dislocated nominal; complexity is an additional factor. Several functions considered important in Present Day English such as reintroduction of a referent after a long gap, contrast, and licensing of topic continuity are not characteristic of Old English left-dislocations. Suggestions are made about how work on contemporary English left-dislocations and on comparative studies of information structure might be informed by the characteristics of Old English left-dislocations.
Key words: information structure; left-dislocation; topic continuity; historical texts; genre; Old English
Received: 2006-09-15
Revised: 2007-01-19
Accepted: 2007-02-14
Published Online: 2008-02-12
Published in Print: 2007-11-20
© Walter de Gruyter
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Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
information structure;
left-dislocation;
topic continuity;
historical texts;
genre;
Old English
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Editorial Note
- Linguistic competence: Theory and empiry
- Operator movement and topicalisation in adverbial clauses
- Left-detachment and topic-marking in French: The case of quant à and en fait de
- Specificational sentences and word order in Romance: A functional analysis
- Old English left-dislocations: Their structure and information status
- Book Reviews
- Acknowledgements
- Conference announcement: 41st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
- Publications Received
- Correction
- Index to Volume 41
