Functional motivations behind direct object fronting in written Swedish: A corpus-distributional account

The Pragmatics of Direct Object Fronting in Historical English

Speyer (2008) finds an overall decline in the rate of topicalization in historical English, which we refer to pretheoretically as direct object fronting. He attributes it to two separate phenomena: 1) the early loss of unaccented pronominal and demonstrative fronting, and 2) a gradient decline in the use of accented, contrastive fronting due to prosodic well-formedness conditions imposed by the...

A Unified Account of English Fronting Constructions

Starting a Sentence in Dutch: A corpus study of subject- and object-fronting

First person account: behind the mask: a functional schizophrenic copes.

547 Anonymous The article that follows is part of the Schizophrenia Bulletin's ongoing First Person Accounts series. We hope that mental health profession-als—the Bulletin's primary audience —will take this opportunity to learn about the issues and difficulties confronted by consumers of mental health care. In addition, we hope that these accounts will give patients and families a better sense ...

A Corpus Investigation of PP-fronting in Dutch

A long-standing discussion in Dutch syntax concerns the question whether pp dependents of a noun may be fronted. Although examples which apparently illustrate this pattern can be easily found, it is difficult to come up with linguistic arguments which show once and for all that the fronted pp is actually a dependent of a noun, and not of a verb. In this paper, we investigate to what extent corp...