Deals with "dislocation" - the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. This book reveals some of the empirical richness of dislocation and some key puzzles related to its syntactic, semantic, and discourse analysis.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Structure of DislocationOn Left Dislocation in the Recent History of English: Theory and Data Hand in HandJavier Pérez-Guerra and David Tizón-Couto The Left Clausal Periphery: Clitic Left Dislocation in Italian and Left Dislocation in GermanGünther GrewendorfEcho Questions and Split CPNicholas SobinOn Split CPs and the ‘Perfectness’ of LanguageFrederick J. Newmeyer Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree GrowthRuth Kempson, Jieun Kiaer, Ronnie CannPart II: Content of DislocationSentential Particles and Clausal Typing in Venetan DialectsNicola Munaro and Cecilia PolettoDiscourse Particles in the Left PeripheryMalte ZimmermannNoncanonical Word Order and the Distribution of Inferrable Information in EnglishBetty J. BirnerInformation Structuring inside Constituents: The Case of Chichewa Split NPsSam Mchombo and Yukiko MorimotoRethinking the Narrow Scope Reading of Contrastive TopicBeáta GyurisFronted Quantificational AdverbsAriel CohenPart III: Beyond the SentenceParenthetical Adverbials: The Radical Orphanage ApproachLiliane HaegemanPostscript: Problems and Solutions for Orphan AnalysesLiliane Haegeman, Benjamin Shaer, Werner FreyGerman and English Left-Peripheral Elements and the "Orphan" Analysis of Non-IntegrationBenjamin ShaerOn the Correlative Nature of Hungarian Left-Peripheral RelativesAnikó LiptákDefined by their Left: Wh-Relative Clauses in GermanAnke HollerContributorsIndex