by Cheung Yam Leung. / Thesis submitted in: August, 1997. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-137). / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iv / ROMANIZATION SCHEME --- p.vi / COPYRIGHT --- p.vi / ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS --- p.vii / ABSTRACT --- p.viii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DISLOCATION IN LINGUISTIC STUDY --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- COMPARISON OF RD IN CANTONESE AND ENGLISH --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Structure of RD in Cantonese and English --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Types of Right Dislocation --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Dislocated String and Co-referential Linking --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Approaches to RD --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Functional Approaches --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Syntactic Approaches --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3 --- Summary --- p.19 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SYNTAX OF CANTONESE RIGHT DISLOCATION --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Dislocation Types --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Dislocation Type I: XP in Preclausal Position --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Dislocation Type II: Subj. + Predrear (+SP) + Predfront --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Dislocation Type III: Sentence Fragment --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2 --- Sentence Particles --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Function of SPs in Dislocation --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Prohibition of Dual SPs in Dislocation --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Co-occurrence Restriction between SP and Other Elements --- p.38 / Chapter 3.3 --- Why a Single Syntactic Unit? --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Afterthought is not a Panacea --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Syntactic Dependency in RD --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4 --- Why Leftward Movement? --- p.55 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Base-generation Approach --- p.56 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Rightward Movement Approach --- p.57 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Leftward Movement Approach --- p.60 / Chapter 3.4.4 --- Dislocation vs. Topicalization --- p.62 / Chapter 3.5 --- Sru's (1992) Proposal --- p.67 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Phrasal Constituent Preposing --- p.67 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Substitution vs. Adjunction --- p.70 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Maximal Attachment Level --- p.71 / Chapter 3.5.4 --- Subjacency --- p.72 / Chapter 3.6 --- Syntactic Representation of Dislocation Structure --- p.73 / Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.83 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- CONSTRAINTS ON DISLOCATION STRUCTURE --- p.84 / Chapter 4.1 --- Coordinate Structure Constraint --- p.84 / Chapter 4.2 --- DislocatiON-Adjacency Constraint --- p.86 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Prohibition of Non-D-Adjacent Components in Dislocation --- p.86 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- "Dislocation Structure, Topicalization and the Syntax of SP" --- p.91 / Chapter 4.3 --- Focus --- p.94 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Question-Answer Test --- p.96 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Wh-Phrase --- p.100 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- "Focus Adverb´ؤZing hai "" Only""" --- p.104 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Focus Sentence Particles --- p.106 / Chapter 4.4 --- Negation --- p.108 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DISLOCATION STRUCTURE AND MINIMALIST ASSUMPTIONS --- p.114 / Chapter 5.1 --- Review of Reconstruction --- p.114 / Chapter 5.2 --- Reconstruction in Dislocation Structure --- p.115 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION. --- p.122 / ENDNOTE --- p.131 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.139