French Dislocation
Interpretation, Syntax, Acquisition
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; 17;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 August 2007
- ISBN 9780199230471
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 240x160x25 mm
- Weight 622 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables and figures 0
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Short description:
Cécile De Cat's account of dislocation in French (as in Le chocolat, c'est bon) throws new light on French syntax and prosody, and makes an important and original contribution to the study of linguistic interfaces. It also provides new insights into the acquisition of French as first language. This book will interest scholars and advanced students of French and of its acquisition as a first language as well as linguistic theorists interested in the interfaces between syntax, discourse, and phonology.
MoreLong description:
The pervasive use of dislocations (as in Le chocolat, c'est bon) is a key characteristic of spoken French. This book offers various new and well-motivated insights, based on tests conducted by the author, on the syntactic analysis, prosody, and the interpretation of dislocation in spoken French. It also considers important aspects of the acquisition of dislocation by monolingual children learning different French dialects.
The author argues that spoken French is a discourse-configurational language, in which topics are obligatorily dislocated. She develops a syntactically parsimonious account, which maximizes the import of interfaces involved with discourse and prosody. She proposes clear diagnostics, following a reexamination of the status of subject clitics and a reevaluation of the characteristic prosody of dislocated constituents. The theoretical arguments throughout the book rest on data that comes from corpora of spontaneous production and from various elitication experiments.
This book throws new light on French syntax and prosody and makes an important and original contribution to the study of linguistic interfaces. Clearly expressed and tightly argued it will interest scholars and advanced students of French and of its acquisition as a first language as well as linguistic theorists interested in the interfaces between syntax, discourse, and phonology.
a very interesting and well-balanced book...not only the French synchronic linguists and the spoken communication linguists, but also psycholinguists, linguists concerned by language acquisition and links between thought and language will surely be attracted by this scientific contribution.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
Diagnostics for Dislocated Elements
Interpretation
Syntax
Acquisition
Appendix
References
Index
