Eintrag

Titel

'Integrated' and 'Non-Integrated' Left-peripheral Elements in German and English

Personen

Benjamin Shaer, Werner Frey

Jahr

2004

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

Ort

Berlin

Seiten

465 - 502

In

Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop, ZAS Berlin, November 2003

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch

Schlagwörter

Kontrastiv

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate two pairs of structures in German and English: German Weak Pronoun Left Dislocation and English Topicalization, on the one hand, and German and English Hanging Topic Left Dislocation, on the other. We review the prosodic, lexical, syntactic, and discourse evidence that places the former two structures into one class and the latter two into another, taking this evidence to show that dislocates in the former class are syntactically integrated into their `host¿ sentences while those in the latter class are not. From there, we show that the most straightforward way to account for this difference in `integration¿ is to take the dislocates in the latter structures to be `orphans¿, phrases that are syntactically independent of the phrases with which they are associated, providing additional empirical and theoretical support for this analysis ¿ which, we point out, has a number of antecedents in the literature.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/33969