A Study of the leftdislocation Construction in English.docVIP

A Study of the left-dislocation Construction in English Abstract: This paper analyzes the English left-dislocation construction in terms of its syntactic/semantic structure, information structure as well as topical structure. According to the analysis, the left-dislocation construction consists of two components: the left detached section and the matrix clause. The left detached section is mostly a nominal phrase and it is linked with the matrix clause via coreference by means of usually a pro-form. The information contained in the left detached section can neither be too new nor too