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Lingvisticæ InvestigationesVol. 7:2 (1983) ► pp.261–270
Pierre Lerat: descriptive study of utterances like Ça, les féministes protestent The structure considered (NP, S) is a particuliar (oral) case of dislocation (see J. Deulofeu 1977 and 1979). This article draws attention to two semantic properties of utterances such as Ça, les féministes protestent: 1) NP refers to a definite referential object (deictic, anaphoric, proper name, definite description); 2) the typical interpretation of the structure is "concerning NP".