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Syntactic Dislocation — Dislocazione Sintattica·Dislocation vs Cleft Sentence — Functional Difference
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Rule reminder

Dislocation (left or right) marks a TOPIC — something already in discourse. Cleft sentences ('È il libro che hai letto') mark FOCUS — they identify which one, making an exclusive or contrastive claim. Dislocation: 'Il libro, lo hai letto?' Cleft: 'È il libro che hai letto, non il giornale.'

Dislocation vs Cleft Sentence — Functional Difference1 / 10

Which sentence could ONLY be a cleft (not a dislocation)?

More in this section

→ Left Dislocation — Recognition→ Right Dislocation — Recognition→ Resumptive Pronoun Choice with Left Dislocation→ Left vs Right Dislocation — When to Use Which
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