TY - T1 - Left-Dislocation in Latin : Topics and Syntax in Republican Texts SN - 978-90-04-35746-4 / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/312257 T3 - A1 - Halla-aho, Hilla A2 - PB - Brill Y1 - 2018 LA - eng AB - In the construction known as left-dislocation, an element appears in a fronted position, before the clause to which it belongs, usually introducing the topic of the sentence. Based on a detailed analysis of syntax, information structure and pragmatic organization, this study explores how left-dislocation is used in republican Latin comedy, prose and inscriptions as a device to introduce topics or other pragmatically prominent elements. Taking into consideration especially relative clause syntax ... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - linguistics; syntax; classical languages; Latin literature; epigraphy N1 - PP - ER -