Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 372 g
Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 372 g
Reihe: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
ISBN: 978-0-8153-2556-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
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;
