Timeline for Bob, he went to the store
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| Apr 13, 2020 at 0:19 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Perhaps the most famous instance of this construction in literature—which appears in Conrad's Heart of Darkness—sets the proper name off from the following pronoun with an em dash rather than a comma: "Mistah Kurtz—he dead." Not that punctuation has anything to do with language. | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 23:25 | comment | added | LPH | Are you conscious of hearing the type of dislocation present in "Anne's brother, he is the one who left." (found in the source you quote www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/haj/…) irrespective of any preceding context? Do you, personally, find it in isolation at the beginning of someone's speech, when it can't be justified as "Anne's brother? He is the one who left." or something like that? If so, according to you, what is the particular idea not found in "Anne's brother is the one who left."? | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 21:15 | comment | added | John Lawler | If you say so. Rather like wondering whether full reduplication is suffixing or prefixing. | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 18:43 | comment | added | Hot Licks | And, "Bob, he went to the store" is not derived from "Bob went to the store". Rather, "Bob," is prefixed to "He went to the store" to clarify who is being discussed. | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 18:28 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It should be noted that, in a vacuum, the last version would imply that you were talking to Bob, whereas, in a similar vacuum, the first implies that you are referring to Bob as the one who went to the store. But, of course, intonation and context can change these perceptions. | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 17:48 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |