Editing Dislocation (syntax) (section)

==In French==
Informal spoken [[French language|French]] uses right dislocation very naturally and extensively, to detach [[Semantics|semantic]] information from the [[Grammar|grammatical]] information. Whereas a French news article would likely translate ''The dog bit the little girl'' as ''Le chien a mordu la petite fille'' (lit. "The dog has bitten the little girl"), in everyday speech one might hear ''Il l'a mordue, le chien, la petite fille'' (lit. "It has bitten her, the dog, the little girl"), in which both ''le chien'' ("the dog") and ''la petite fille'' ("the little girl") have been dislocated to the right and replaced by pronouns within the clause. This phenomenon was first studied in French by linguist [[Joseph Vendryes]].

It has been proposed that informal spoken French can be analyzed as having [[polypersonal agreement]]; that is, the various (mostly clitic) pronouns surrounding the verb can be viewed as [[inflection]]s on the verb that [[agreement (linguistics)|agree]] in [[grammatical person|person]], [[grammatical number|number]], and sometimes [[grammatical gender|gender]] with its various [[verb argument|arguments]].

Author [[Raymond Queneau]], whose favourite example of dislocation in French was ''L'a-t-il jamais attrapé, le gendarme, son voleur ?'' ("Has he ever caught him, the policeman, his thief?"), has been inspired to write many articles such as ''Connaissez-vous le Chinook ?'' ("Do you know [[Chinookan languages|Chinookan]]?"). According to Queneau, right dislocation in Chinookan is commonplace.