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Inversion in Modern English : Form and Function.
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1997.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction in terms of point of view and speaker subjectivity. This semantic claim is tested against the occurrence, as well as the absence, of the different forms of inversion in natural discourse. The analysis of the pragmatics and discourse function of inversion is based on the LOB and the Brown corpus. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-223) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275820 9027275823 1283424304 9781283424301 9786613424303 6613424307 |