Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf. (21) (a) Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP) (21) (b) ^✽Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)

If I had my life over again I should undoubtedly marry a Chigro (Chinese negress) for they are the loveliest and merriest girls I ever set eyes on.

Then came some hollow groanings from inside the cabinet. The Spiritualists sat up expectantly. That's ectoplasm, said Ogilvy. It always causes pain on emission.

I really really need snu snu