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A Note on the Right Dislocation Construction in English

The English right dislocation construction (RDC) consists of a right-dislocated phrase which is coreferential with a pronoun in its preceding clause and displays a variety of syntactic as well as semantic/pragmatic properties. This paper investigates the uses of the construction through corpus data and shows that though the semantic relation between the right-dislocated NP and its coreferential pronoun is traditionally taken to be anaphoric (Quirk et al. 1985), it is quite intriguing in that like English copular constructions, the relation is a 'copular relation' which can be interpreted as equative, predicational, and specificational, respectively. To know this kind of relation between two NPs, each of which has its various syntactic properties, is responsible for the RDC's distinctive grammatical properties.