Will you be a singer or sad scared little hummer?

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)

After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse.

The gavialids, found in India, eat fish and have slender snouts.