TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hilla  Halla-Aho
TI  - Left-dislocation in Republican Latin
SN  - 9789004357464
AV  - PA2311 
U1  - 475 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leiden, , Boston: 
PB  - Brill, 
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Grammar, Generative
KW  - syntax
N1  - Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Introduction -- Defining Left-Dislocation -- Left-Dislocation in Comedy (with an Appendix on Lucretius) -- Left-Dislocation in the Epigraphic Material -- Left-Dislocation in Republican Prose -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography
N2  - In the construction known as left-dislocation, an element appears in a fronted position, before the clause to which it belongs, usually introducing the topic of the sentence. Based on a detailed analysis of syntax, information structure and pragmatic organization, this study explores how left-dislocation is used in republican Latin comedy, prose and inscriptions as a device to introduce topics or other pragmatically prominent elements. Taking into consideration especially relative clause syntax and constraints of each text type, Hilla Halla-aho shows that, in the context of early Latin syntax and the evolving standards of the written language, left-dislocation performs similar functions in dramatic dialogue, legal inscriptions and archaic prose
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004357464
ER  -