By Cécile de Cat
The writer argues that spoken French is a discourse-configurational language, within which subject matters are obligatorily dislocated. She develops a syntactically parsimonious account, which maximizes the import of interfaces concerned with discourse and prosody. She proposes transparent diagnostics, following a reexamination of the prestige of topic clitics and a reevaluation of the attribute prosody of dislocated ingredients. The theoretical arguments through the booklet relaxation on facts that comes from
corpora of spontaneous creation and from numerous elitication experiments.
This booklet throws new mild on French syntax and prosody and makes a massive and unique contribution to the examine of linguistic interfaces. basically expressed and tightly argued it is going to curiosity students and complex scholars of French and of its acquisition as a primary language in addition to linguistic theorists attracted to the interfaces among syntax, discourse, and phonology.
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French Dislocation: Interpretation, Syntax, Acquisition (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics) by Cécile de Cat
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