ABSTRACT
The investigation of topicalization and left dislocation of various constituents has played a significant role in devising a syntactic theory of the left periphery of sentences. It is important for determining the clausal architecture as well as the discourse roles of certain sentence-initial positions. Recent years have brought renewed interest in the types of left-dislocated elements crosslinguistically (see, e.g., Anagnostopoulou et al. 1997), bringing forth a great deal of evidence for fine-grained distinctions between various types of elements that are moved to or base generated in the left periphery and their relation to the rest of the clause. It is in this context that the study of clausesize material in the left periphery gains importance.
