TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halla-aho,Hilla
TI  - Left-dislocation in Latin: topics and syntax in Republican texts 
T2  - Amsterdam studies in classical philology,
SN  - 9789004357464
AV  - PA2311 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Grammar, Generative
KW  - Latin (Langue)
KW  - Analyse du discours
KW  - Syntaxe
KW  - Grammaire générative
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Defining left-dislocation -- Left-dislocation in comedy (with an appendix on Lucretius) -- Left-dislocation in the Epigraphic material -- Left-dislocation in Republican prose
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  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwz43
ER  -