Bacolini

Left and Right Dislocation of Bacolini

Research Paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: excellent, Università degli Studi Roma Tre (University), course: Applied Linguistics, language: English, comment: "Ilaria Bacolini studied and took BA degree in Linguistics at the University of Roma Tre, discussing a thesis on the interface interpretation of Topics in Italian and in English and she discussed her MA dissertation (Subject, Topic and the Identification on "pro"), in which she focused on the intepretation of null subject in Modern Hebrew, based on an interface (syntax-prosody)comparative analysis with Italian. Two excellent works, in which Ilaria shows her true interest for linguistics investigation, her capacity to deal with data, her expertise with software tools for prosodic analysis." , abstract: In English, the lowest position of the Topic in CP does not appear to be available for left realizations of the G-Topic. The reason for such unavailability remains unexplained. What is known, however, is that there are no recognized cases of the G-Topic dislocated on the left. In spite of this, the present analysis will lead us to maintain that, even in this language, left dislocation of the G-Topic is present, but depends on "particular structural conditions of the CP" and on the uniqueness of such a Topic as the only element in CP that can occupy the functional projection of TopP. This paper is divided into three main sections: in § 2, we will present an introduction to the notion of Topic and to other notions considered important to understand subjects in question. In § 3, we will explain in detail our aforementioned hypothesis; finally, in § 4, we will discuss right dislocations of the G-Topic and, in particular, the so-called 'accented' Topic.