Xavier Villalba

The Syntax and Semantics of Dislocations in Catalan: a Study on Asymmetric Syntax at the Peripheries of Sentence Xavier Villalba

This book is the most important attempt to integrate Clitic Right Dislocation into the highly restrictive syntax following from Richard Kayne's influential Linear Correspondence Axiom. Besides offering a fully-fledged analysis of Clitic Right Dislocation and Clitic Left Dislocation within the strict standards of Kayne's proposal, the book offers a detailed description of all kinds of left- and right-detachments in Catalan, which includes a thorough discussion of a variegated kind of data, which have only been partially described in the literature. Hence, this book will stand as a major reference for any future research on Romance dislocation constructions.