Left dislocation: towards a new horizon

Abstract

This volume has examined the LD construction in several genetically and areally diverse languages with the overarching aim of contributing to a more coherent and crosslinguistically justifiable profile of the LD category. Towards this end, each article has focused on describing one or more particular features of LD (e.g. syntactic form, pragmatic function, translation, diachronic processes, inter alia) in a given language with the results showcasing the rich tapestry of diverse attributes exhibited by LD across languages.

Keywords

• syntactic form
• pragmatic function
• translation
• diachronic processes
• left dislocation