English inversion : a ground-before-figure construction /

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The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his central argument on the claim that inversion is a linguistic representation of a Ground-before-Figure model, the author d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chen, Rong, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
Series:Cognitive linguistics research ; 25.
Subjects:
English language > Word order.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order.
Ordre des mots.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order
English language > Word order
Figur-Grund-Verhältnis
Kognitive Grammatik
Inversion > Grammatik
Inversie (taalkunde)
Engels.
Cognitieve linguïstiek.
Englisch.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Preliminaries
  • Ch. 2. Inversion as GbF instantiation
  • Ch. 3. Syntactic constraints
  • Ch. 4. Inversion in discourse
  • Ch. 5. Conclusion.

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