Anacoluthon and "Double Subject" sentences

Eunice Souza Lima Pontes

Abstract


Abstract: This paper examines constructions that portuguese
grammarians have studied under the label «anacoluthon».
It is argued that they are similar to sentences Li & Thompson
call «double subject sentences». They differ from Ross's
(1968) topicalizations because it is not possible to say that the
SN to the left was raised from any point of the S to the
right. They difter also from left dislocated Ss because there
is no copy pronoun in the S to the right. It is concluded that
anacoluthon can be interpreted by rules of discourse.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-3548.4.7.138-146

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