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The Discourse Function of Inversion in English

The Discourse Function of Inversion in English

Paperback

Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1138967750
ISBN13: 9781138967755
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 24 2015
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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