Rigth dislocation, dislocation-to-the-right and other related issues
ISSN: 0211-5913
Year of publication: 1996
Issue: 32-33
Pages: 19-32
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to refute present formal analyses of the phenomenon of right-dislocation, and to defend the view that rightdislocation is merely a short-distance referential relationship in discourse. It follows from this that only pragmatic / semantic factors (as opposed to structural ones) should be invoked to account for the peculiarities of this construction type. It also follows that right-dislocation should not be kept apart from the grammatical description of other “detached” NPs.