Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation

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• dc.contributor.author Mayol, Laia
• dc.contributor.author Villalba, Xavier
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-02-21T08:52:09Z
• dc.date.available 2020-02-21T08:52:09Z
• dc.date.issued 2013
• dc.description.abstract While our understanding has grown of the discourse role of rightdislocation (RD), there exists a class of RD (continuing RD) that have proven impervious to any principled analysis, for the role of the dislocate is (apparently) null, given that its referent appears immediately before the RD and, thus, simple pronominalisation should suffice to retrieve it. This paper aims to account for the pragmatic felicity conditions of continuing RD by looking at the role of polarity, an overlooked factor in previous work. Particularly, we will show that a significant amount of continuing RD involve the contradiction of part of the interlocutor’s common knowledge. Moreover, we will argue that RD does not have a single discourse function, but several: it can work as a ‘tail’ or as an activation mechanism.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research has been funded by research projects FFI2011-23356 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain), 2009SGR1079 (Generalitat de Catalunya), awarded to the UAB, and by a Juan de la Cierva grant (JDC-2009-3922) awarded to the first author.
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• dc.identifier.citation Villalba X, Mayol L. Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation. International Review of Pragmatics. 2013;5(1):87-117.DOI: 10.1163/18773109-13050104
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-13050104
• dc.identifier.issn 1877-3095
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43680
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Brill Academic Publishers
• dc.relation.ispartof International Review of Pragmatics. 2013;5(1):87-117.DOI: 10.1163/18773109-13050104
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2011-23356
• dc.rights © Brill Academic Publishers [http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-13050104]
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• dc.subject.keyword Right-dislocation
• dc.subject.keyword Information structure
• dc.subject.keyword Polarity
• dc.subject.keyword Discourse function
• dc.title Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion