Left-detachment
Revision as of 11:38, 28 November 2008 by Haspelmath (talk | contribs) (New page: '''Left-detachment''' is a detachment construction in which the deatched constitutent occurs at the left periphery of the clause. ===Example=== French ''Quant à Wolfgang Wendt, il avait ...)
Left-detachment is a detachment construction in which the deatched constitutent occurs at the left periphery of the clause.
Example
French Quant à Wolfgang Wendt, il avait à nouveau disparu, et serait blessé à la jambe. 'As for wolfgang Wendt, he had disappeared again, and is said to have a leg injury.' (Lagae 2007:331)
Reference
Lagae, Véronique. 2007. Left-detachment and topic-marking in French. Folia Linguistica 41.3/4:327-355.
