Open AccessDislocation without movement
Author(s) -
Cécile De Cat
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.35.2004.223
Subject(s) - clitic , adjunction , dislocation , element (criminal law) , syntactic structure , pronoun , linguistics , feature (linguistics) , computer science , phenomenon , minimalist program , projection (relational algebra) , syntax , sort , mathematics , artificial intelligence , physics , philosophy , algorithm , pure mathematics , epistemology , political science , law , information retrieval , condensed matter physics
This paper argues that French Left-Dislocation is a unified phenomenon whether it is resumed by a clitic or a non-clitic element. The syntactic component is shown to play a minimal role in its derivation: all that is required is that the dislocated element be merged by adjunction to a Discourse Projection (generally a finite TP with root properties). No agreement or checking of a topic feature is necessary, hence no syntactic movement of any sort need be postulated. The so-called resumptive element is argued to be a full-fledged pronoun rather than a true syntactic resumptive.