Defocalization in Cantonese right dislocation

TM Lee - GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of …, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In this paper, I argue that a subtype of right dislocation (RD) in Cantonese introduces
defocus in a sentence. It involves a process of defocalization, the core semantic function of …

Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian

TTM Lee - Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2023 - Springer
The primary goal of this paper is to understand the information structure of right dislocation
(RD). I report a variation in RD in Asian languages with regard to the information structural …

Gapless right-dislocation: The role of overt correlates

H Ko - 어학연구(Language Research), 2016 - s-space.snu.ac.kr
This paper examines the syntax of gapless right-dislocations in Korean. I argue that gapless
right-dislocation constructions are not uniform, but divided into two types: specificational and …

Notes on word order variation in Korean

C Park, J Yeon - Pragmatics, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
This article aims to develop an analysis of scrambling or word order variation in Korean from
a pragmatic/cognitive perspective. Although extensive research has been carried out on this …

[PDF][PDF] Defending the notion of defocus in Cantonese

TTM Lee - Current Research in Chinese Linguistics, 2020 - tszminglee.github.io
This paper argues that the post-sentence-final-particle elements in right dislocation in
Cantonese are defocus, an understudied notion in the ontology of information structure. This …

[PDF][PDF] On the typology of small clauses: Null subject and mode of merge in resultatives

H Ko - Studies in Generative Grammar, 2015 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
This paper investigates the syntax of small clauses (SCs), with special focus on resultative
constructions in Korean. I propose that resultative constructions in Korean are categorized …

[PDF][PDF] Case-drop, left-branch extraction and multiplicity in the right-dislocation construction.

BS Park, H Kim - Linguistic Research, 2016 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Park, Bum-Sik and Hyosik Kim. 2016. Case-drop, left-branch extraction and multiplicity in the
right-dislocation construction. Linguistic Research 33 (2), 259-297. This paper investigates …

[PDF][PDF] Right dislocation vs. fragment: A reply to Ko (2014)

HD Ahn, S Cho - Studies in Generative Grammar, 2015 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Ahn & Cho (2005) proposes that some fragmentary utterances in Korean are derived from
the full sentential structure via movement and deletion. Right dislocation (RD) in Korean can …

A uniform analysis of right dislocation: A reply to Ko (2016)

HD Ahn, S Cho - 어학연구(Language Research), 2016 - s-space.snu.ac.kr
Ko (2016) proposes that gapless right dislocations are divided into two types: Specificational
right-dislocation constructions are derived by rightward movement in a mono-clausal …

On the island-(in) sensitivity in the right-dislocation construction in Korean

BS Park, SR Oh - 언어과학연구, 2017 - dbpia.co.kr
Korean is a SOV language, but it allows the right dislocation construction (RDC), where an
element appears post-verbally. The post verbal element is called appendix and the …