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1、AStudyoftheleft-dislocationConstructioninEnglishAbstract:ThispaperanalyzestheEnglishleft-dislocationconstructionintermsofitssyntactic/semanticstructure,informationstructureaswellastopicalstructure.Accordingtotheanalysis,theleft-dislocationconstructionconsistsoftwocomp
2、onents:theleftdetachedsectionandthematrixclause.Theleftdetachedsectionismostlyanominalphraseanditislinkedwiththematrixclauseviacoreferencebymeansofusuallyapro-form.Theinformationcontainedintheleftdetachedsectioncanneitherbetoonewnortooold.Itismainlytheanchoredbrand-ne
3、winformation,theunusednewinformationortheinferableinformationwhichdiffersgreatlyfromthetypicalinformationstructureofthecanonicalsentence.Theleftdetachedsectionactsasanindependentdiscourseunitbringstoitsuchtextualfunctionsastopicwhichdominatesthematrixclauseintheright.
4、Keywords:left-dislocationconstruction,syntactic/semanticstructure,informationsstructure,topicalstructure1.IntroductionThefirstonetoanalyzetheleftdislocationasalanguagestructureisRoss（1967）.Astheexample(1)shows,accordingtotheviewpointsofcreatinglinguistics,leftdislocat
5、ionsisasentencepatternthroughtransformation.Thatistosay,acomponentpartofacanonicalclausewasmovedleftfromitsoriginalplacetothebeginningofthewholenewnon-canonicalclausewhichconsistsofaleft-dislocatedelementandapropositionalclauseoramatrixclause.(1)YourfriendJohn,Isawhim
6、lastnight.Concerningwithitsfunction,manyscholarsthoughtit’srelatedtothetopic.Lehman(1998)thought,“…Thebeginningofasentenceusuallyservesasthetopicpositionofthewholesentence,especiallythenounphraseofleftdislocation.”Thisopinionholdsthattheleftdislocatedelementiseitherto
7、introduceanewtopic(Gundel1985)orjusttobeusedtomarktopics(Reinhart1981).Thepaperisbasedontheconsideringofthefunctionalfeaturesoftheleft-dislocationintermsofallaspects,suchassubordinateclause,syntaxandsoon.2.Thefeaturesofsyntactic/semanticstructureAsshownabove,theleft-d
8、islocationinEnglishconsistsoftwoparts:left-dislocatedelementandmatrixclause.Typicalleft-dislocatedelementisusuallytakenonbyn
