this paper, I shall attempt to illustrate this complexity by examining the functioning in discourse of what is apparently one syntactic form, Left-Dislocation. I can think of few syntactic forms whose discourse function has been mentioned as often in the literature as has Left-Dislocation. However, as I shall try to show, statements of its discourse functioning have often been vague and always grossly incomplete. A careful account of how it actually works will show, I believe, that such form-function correlations must lie squarely within the domain of linguistic competence, attributable neither to common sense reasoning nor to 'iconicity'. 1. Left-Dislocation: form and previously claimed functions.
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