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This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative function, through examining the communicative functions of Left-Dislocation in English. The investigation is corpus-based, and focuses on spontaneous conversation, but other discourse types are also taken into account. The overall perspective is resolutely empirical, and preconceptions about the possible functions of Left-Dislocation are avoided. Contents 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. Referent-introduction (1): interaction; 3. Referent-introduction (2): recoverability; 4. Referent-introduction (3): topicality; 5. Other functions of LD; 6. Prosodic aspects of LD; 7. LD in other discourse types; 8. A broader perspecitive; 9. General conclusion; Notes, Appendices, References, Subject and author indices.
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Bradley Leifermann
reviewed From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction: On Left-Dislocation in English on January 03, 2013
From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction
I can hardly add anything to Christopher's excellent review on this book. It is really convincing that these parallel structures in the European languages are due to century-long language contact rather than shared retentions from the proto-language(s) or parallel developments. A notion I had some problems with, however, was the idea of "minor use patterns" being present in languages prior to the contact scenario, which then are turned into "major use patterns" through contact and grammaticalization processes. Maybe I missunderstood something, but this hypothesis seems to suggest that no new grammatical patterns could arise in a language if there hasn't been a minor and similar grammatical use for the element in question in the older stage of the language. That seems to be true for all cases discussed in the book, but doesn't strike me as a neccessary universal in contact-induced pattern replication. Gotta discuss this with my colleagues...
But nevertheless, this is a great book and will probably help me indeed seeing the big picture for my PhD thesis.
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