The Left Periphery: The Interaction of Syntax, Pragmatics and Prosody in Czech

by Anne Sturgeon

This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and analysis of these constructions with respect to their syntactic behavior, discourse function and prosody. Following recent work on the Syntax-Phonology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027255121
• ISBN13: 9789027255129
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 9.7"