Rigth dislocation, dislocation-to-the-right and other related issues

• Autores: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
• Localización: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, ISSN 0211-5913, Nº 32-33, 1996, págs. 19-32
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of this paper is to refute present formal analyses of the phenomenon of right-dislocation, and to defend the view that rightdislocation is merely a short-distance referential relationship in discourse. It follows from this that only pragmatic / semantic factors (as opposed to structural ones) should be invoked to account for the peculiarities of this construction type. It also follows that right-dislocation should not be kept apart from the grammatical description of other “detached” NPs.