Dislocation without movement

Authors

  • Cécile De Cat

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.35.2004.223

Abstract

This paper argues that French Left-Dislocation is a unified phenomenon whether it is resumed by a clitic or a non-clitic element. The syntactic component is shown to play a minimal role in its derivation: all that is required is that the dislocated element be merged by adjunction to a Discourse Projection (generally a finite TP with root properties). No agreement or checking of a topic feature is necessary, hence no syntactic movement of any sort need be postulated. The so-called resumptive element is argued to be a full-fledged pronoun rather than a true syntactic resumptive.

 

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Published

2004

How to Cite

De Cat, Cécile. 2004. “Dislocation Without Movement”. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 35 (1):77-109. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.35.2004.223.