Anaphora, Agreement, and Right Dislocations in Greek  

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Valiouli, Maria

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 11 no. 1-2 (Dec. 1994), page 55-82.
Topik: Anaphora; Agreement; Greek Language; Right Dislocation
Fulltext: vol 11, no 1-2, p 55-82.pdf (1.49MB)

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First, Greek right dislocations are specified and distinguished from other rightmost fullfledged NP occurrences. Then they are classified into six categories, which reflect six differentiated intentions on the part of the speaker with respect to the pragmatic impact of his utterance in the discourse context Finally, they are analysed in terms of the anaphoric relations and agreement possibilities that hold beween the preceding anaphor and the right-dislocated expression. It is argued that all right-dislocated constructions in Greek are used for an unemphatic projection of the thematic information of the anaphoric clause, and for a simultaneous unemphatic projection of the speaker's referential or attitudinal perspective. It is also suggested that the various concord possibilities between the anaphorically related elements reflect various referential or attitudinal differentiations towards the referent of the dislocated element Finally, it is claimed that the different conditions on the speaker's 'freedom' to express through concord or non-concord his referential or attitudinal differentiations depend on the primary pragmatic function of the particular category of right dislocation used.

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