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Left-Dislocation in Latin : Topics and Syntax in Republican Texts

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Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In the construction known as left-dislocation, an element appears in a fronted position, before the clause to which it belongs, usually introducing the topic of the sentence. Based on a detailed analysis of syntax, information structure and pragmatic organization, this study explores how left-dislocation is used in republican Latin comedy, prose and inscriptions as a device to introduce topics or other pragmatically prominent elements. Taking into consideration especially relative clause syntax and constraints of each text type, Hilla Halla-aho shows that, in the context of early Latin syntax and the evolving standards of the written language, left-dislocation performs similar functions in dramatic dialogue, legal inscriptions and archaic prose.

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Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, Volume: 28

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Leiden : Brill., 2018

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x, 253 pp.

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English

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978-90-04-35746-4

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online resource

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Classical Studies

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Hilla Halla-Aho

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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004357464

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