Discourse Function of Inversion in English
Taylor & Francis

Discourse Function of Inversion in English

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Literature, Literature & literary studies
ISBN13: 9780815325567
Published: 01 Nov 1996

Format - Hardback
By Betty Birner

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Discourse Function of Inversion in English

Regular price A$252.00
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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.

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