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Syntactic Dislocation — Dislocazione Sintattica·Dislocation in Questions
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Rule reminder

Left and right dislocation occur frequently in questions. In left-dislocated questions, the topic is fronted and resumed by a clitic: 'Il direttore, lo hai incontrato?' In right-dislocated questions, the clitic appears first and the full NP follows: 'Lo hai incontrato, il direttore?' Both are common in spoken Italian to signal that the questioned element is discourse-given.

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In 'Quella macchina rossa, la vuole ancora tuo fratello?', who is the sentence asking about?

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→ Dislocation for Contrast→ Register: Dislocation in Formal vs. Informal Italian→ Dislocation in Italian Dialects vs. Standard Italian→ Dislocation vs. Topicalization in Formal Written Italian
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