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Publication details [#45728]

Manetta, Emily. 2007. Unexpected left dislocation: An English Corpus Study. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (5) : 1029–1035.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | function | left-dislocation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This analysis of left dislocation tokens in a corpus of spoken English recorded in South Philadelphia, reveals a not previously identified fourth type of left dislocation, labelled 'the Unexpected Subject type', and defines it via a surrounding discourse Centering Theory analysis.