Essays about: "lexico syntactic"

Found 1 essay containing the words lexico syntactic.

  1. 1. Topicalisation and Left-Dislocation in European Portuguese

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Robert Farren; [2016]
    Keywords : clitic left-dislocation; topicalization; topicalisation; CLLD; Portuguese; intonation; prosody; pragmatics; information structure; topic; Languages and Literatures; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Topicalisation (TOP) and clitic left-dislocation (CLLD) are syntactic strategies in which some constituent occurs sentence-initially rather than in canonical position further to the right. European Portuguese is exceptional among Romance languages, as both TOP and CLLD can be used to place verbal arguments in clause-initial position. READ MORE