Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 264 g
Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 264 g
Reihe: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
ISBN: 978-1-138-96775-5
Verlag: Routledge
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.
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Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Definition and Preliminary Taxonomy; Chapter 3 Previous Analyses; Chapter 4 The Function of Inversion; Chapter 5 Verbs and Related Issues; Chapter 6 Summary and Conclusions;
