Left dislocation in Dutch

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Linguistics in the Netherlands Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI:10.1075/avt.00081.van

Myrte van Hinsberg, Petra Hendriks

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Abstract

Abstract Left Dislocation in Dutch is still poorly understood. In particular, it is unclear why speakers of Dutch use this construction and which factors influence its use. To obtain more insight in the function and use of Left Dislocation in Dutch, we elicited narratives from 30 adult speakers of Dutch and carried out an analysis of the use of Left Dislocation constructions in these narratives. Our analysis revealed that neither the introduction of new referents, nor the expression of a contrast between two referents, nor the marking of a shifted topic is able to explain all uses of Left Dislocation in these narratives. We speculate that the function of Left Dislocation in Dutch is to mark a referent as a potential topic for the further discourse.

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荷兰人的左脱位

摘要荷兰语中的左位错仍然知之甚少。特别是，目前还不清楚为什么说荷兰语的人使用这个结构，以及哪些因素影响了它的使用。为了更深入地了解左错位在荷兰语中的功能和使用，我们从30名成年荷兰语使用者的叙述中提取了左错位结构，并对这些叙述中的左错位结构进行了分析。我们的分析表明，无论是引入新的指称物，还是表达两个指称物之间的对比，还是标记一个转移的话题，都不能解释这些叙事中左错位的所有用法。我们推测，荷兰语中的左位错的功能是将指代物标记为进一步话语的潜在主题。

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Linguistics in the Netherlands Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Linguistics in the Netherlands is a series of annual publications, sponsored by the Dutch Linguistics Association (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap) and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company since Volume 8 in 1991. Each volume contains a careful selection through peer review of papers presented at the annual meeting of the society. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. Each volume presents an overview of research in different fields of linguistics in the Netherlands containing articles on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.