LDis and LDet-sequences do not only front given (vs. new) items more frequently in Modern English written texts, but they can also be claimed to do so more successfully: the left-detached referent persists for an average of 2.32 clauses and, thus, cohesively expands beyond the clause containing the resumptive element, i.e. into the paragraph. This outcome reinforces the assumption that the (co)referential networks created in the written medium quantitively and qualitatively exceed those usually provided in the spoken language. As for genre, LDet- sequences show up far more frequently in speech-related genres (drama and fiction) than in any other genre. Last, only the diachronic evolution of LDet-sequences that most closely resemble LDis concurs with previously reported declining trends for left-detached constituents (cf. Pérez Guerra & Tizón-Couto 2009).