Discourse Function of Inversion in English
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CONNECTIVE FUNCTION
constituent
constituent order
discourse analysis
Elegant Fountain
English inversion pragmatics research
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
familiar
gregory
Gregory Ward
information
information structure
Intermediate Phrase
Inversion Type
levin
linguistic theory
Locative Inversion
Locative PP
Main Verb
NATO's Decision
Nuclear Accent
Pitch Accent
Popcorn
Popped Corn
Post-verbal Np
Postposed Position
Postposed Subject
pragmatic constraints
preposed
Preposed Constituent
Preposed Element
prior
Specific Processing Mechanisms
subjectauxiliary
SVO
SVO Sentence
syntactic variation
Unaccusative Verbs
Vincent Van Gogh
ward
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- ISBN 9781138967755
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1997. This dissertation presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an empirical study of natural language data. The central finding is that inversion is subject to a pragmatic constraint on the information status of its constituents; specifically, the information represented by the preposed constituent must be at least as familiar within the discourse as is that represented by the postposed constituent.
