TY - JOUR
TI - The Puzzles of Topic Dislocations in Polish
AU - Mokrosz, Ewelina
TI - The Puzzles of Topic Dislocations in Polish
AB - In this paper we show that there are different topic dislocations in Polish, each representing a specific type of a discourse function. With a battery of diagnostic tests we analyse each dislocation and propose their classification. As it turns out, constructions implementing a contrastive topic exhibit features of both A and A’-movement, which turns out problematic for a uniform analysis. We demonstrate that the movement in them is non-quantificational. The movement targeting TopP consists of at least two steps. An object undergoes A-movement and lands in the specifier of an Aboutness Phrase. Then it moves to SpecTopP where it checks a discourse feature.
VL - Volume 17 (2022)
IS - Vol. 17, Issue 4
PY - 2023
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 145
EP - 176
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.22.007.17645
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/the-puzzles-of-topic-dislocations-in-polish
KW - topic
KW - left dislocations
KW - crossover effects
KW - aboutness
KW - resumption