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'''Left-detachment''' is a detachment construction in which the deatched constitutent occurs at the left periphery of the clause. | '''Left-detachment''' is a [[detachment]] construction in which the deatched constitutent occurs at the left periphery of the clause. | ||
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Lagae, Véronique. 2007. Left-detachment and topic-marking in French. ''Folia Linguistica'' 41.3/4:327-355. | *Barnes, Betsy K. 1985. ''The pragmatics of left detachment in Spoken Standard French.'' Amsterdam: Benjamins. | ||
*Lagae, Véronique. 2007. Left-detachment and topic-marking in French. ''Folia Linguistica'' 41.3/4:327-355. | |||
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Latest revision as of 11:40, 28 November 2008
Left-detachment is a detachment construction in which the deatched constitutent occurs at the left periphery of the clause.
Example
French Quant à Wolfgang Wendt, il avait à nouveau disparu, et serait blessé à la jambe. 'As for wolfgang Wendt, he had disappeared again, and is said to have a leg injury.' (Lagae 2007:331)
Reference
- Barnes, Betsy K. 1985. The pragmatics of left detachment in Spoken Standard French. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Lagae, Véronique. 2007. Left-detachment and topic-marking in French. Folia Linguistica 41.3/4:327-355.