The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French

• Acknowledgments | p. vii
• 1. Introduction | p. 1
• 1.1. Purposes of the study
• 1.2. The language of the corpus
• 2. Review of the Literature | p. 5
• 2.1. Syntactic descriptions and the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis (SPCH)
• 2.2. Pragmatic descriptions
• 3. The Data-General Observations and Hypotheses | p. 13
• 3.1. Preliminary observations
• 3.2. Problems with the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis
• 3.3. Contrastiveness and topic shift
• 3.4. A new hypothesis — in search of LDs of minimal pragmatic motivation
• 3.5. Alternative syntactic analyses
• 3.6. The ‘domain’ of LD: sentence-topic and discourse-topic
• 4. Pronominal Detachments | p. 37
• 4.1. ‘Personal’ pronouns: first person: moi, nous
• 4.2. ‘Nonpersonal’ pronoun: ça
• 5. Lexical NP Detachments | p. 49
• 5.1. With nonpersonal anaphor
• 5.2. With personal anaphor: NP il/elle …
• 5.3. NP-LDs with nonsubject anaphors
• 5.4. The definiteness constraint
• 6. Special Cases | p. 95
• 6.1. ‘Topicalization’ and ‘Focus Movement’ in spoken French
• 6.2. No-anaphor LDs
• 6.3. Double LDs
• 7. Conclusion | p. 111
• Notes | p. 115

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