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Author Fernández-Sánchez, Javier, author.

Title Right peripheral fragments : right dislocation and related phenomena in romance / Javier Fernández-Sánchez
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 214 pages)
Series Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 258
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 258.
Contents A tale of two clauses -- Previous accounts -- Locality without movement -- Other right peripheral fragments
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "This monograph is a revised version of my PhD dissertation, defended in June 2017 in Bellaterra, Spain"--Author's acknowledgements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2020)
Subject Romance languages -- Clauses
Romance languages -- Word order
Romance languages -- Clauses
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019044652
ISBN 9789027261694
9027261695