Unexpected left dislocation: An English Corpus Study

Manetta, Emily

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2007.01.003

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“…According to Geluykens, it is often entirely irrecoverable based on the previous discourse. A secondary function of English LD is to introduce a referent that is inferable from the previous discourse (Geluykens ;Gregory & Michaelis;Manetta;Ochs Keenan & Schieffelin;Prince, 1997Prince, , 1998. In such cases, the LD referent has not itself been mentioned in prior discourse but is directly related to previous discourse referents or stands in a partially ordered set relation to them (Geluykens;Prince, 1997Prince, , 1998.…”

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“…Importantly, discourse-old referents (e.g., evoked) are rare in English LD (see Manetta, 2007 , for further discussion). Because LDs in English do not strictly depend on prior discourse and can introduce discourse-new referents, they may occur at the start of a discourse (Geluykens, 1992 ) when no prior discourse is available.…”

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Left Dislocation in Near-Native French

Donaldson

2011

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The present study is concerned with the upper limits of SLA—specifically, mastery of the syntax-discourse interface in successful endstate learners of second-language (L2) French (near-native speakers). Left dislocation (LD) is a syntactic means of structuring spoken French discourse by marking topic. Its use requires speakers to coordinate syntactic and pragmatic or discursive knowledge, an interface at which L2 learners have been shown to encounter difficulties (e.g., Sorace, 1993; Sorace & Filiaci, 2006). The data come from (a) an 8.5-hr corpus that consists of recordings of 10 dyadic conversations between near-native and native speakers of French and (b) two contextualized paper and audio tasks that tested intuitions and preferences regarding LD. Analyses of the near-native speakers’ production of LDs, the syntactic properties of their LDs, and their use of LDs to promote different types of discourse referents to topic status suggest that their mastery of this aspect of discourse organization converges on that of native speakers.

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Section: Left Dislocation and Information Structurementioning

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Section: Left Dislocation and Information Structurementioning

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Left Dislocation in Near-Native French

Donaldson

2011

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“…On this view, the main difference may be in how acceptable languages find this strategy, and how often they use it. In English, for instance, resumption is extremely rare (Creswell 2002;Hermann 2005;Jaeger 2006;Manetta 2007;Bennett 2008), so it may have the same "last resort"…”

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Resumption Still Does Not Rescue Islands

2011

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“…Rather, since the referent LOTTA GUYS is the topic of the first sentence, the addressee would naturally expect the same referent to function as the topic in the second 28 Manetta (2007) observes similar uses of LD in spoken English discourse which she refers to as "Unexpected LDs". 29 Cf.…”

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Left Dislocation: A Typological Overview

Westbury

2016

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The Left Dislocation construction is a typologically universal phenomenon that has received detailed analysis, from both formal and functional perspectives, in a number of genetically and areally diverse languages. The present paper aims to provide a general overview of this crosslinguistic research with a concentration on: 1) the comparison of syntactico-semantic features of LD across languages, 2) the generalized cross-linguistic patterns and categories attested for LD, and 3) the explanations offered for LD in terms of its motivation and function in discourse. Accordingly, the paper will proceed in two parts. The first part will entail a brief survey of the syntactic and semantic attributes that have established LD as a typological category. In light of these attributes, linguists generally distinguish between two broad types of LD on the basis of particular syntactic patterns and constraints. Thus, a general description of these types is provided, along with a brief description of several less prototypical LD types. The second part of the paper will focus on the explanation of LD both in terms of the cognitive and contextual constraints that motivate its use in discourse, as well as the communicative goals and pragmatic effects achieved by the construction in particular contexts.

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Unexpected left dislocation: An English Corpus Study

Cited by 24 publications

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Left Dislocation in Near-Native French

Left Dislocation in Near-Native French

Resumption Still Does Not Rescue Islands

Left Dislocation: A Typological Overview

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