The Discourse Function of Inversion in English

The Discourse Function of Inversion in English

Autore: Betty Birner
Editore: Taylor & Francis
Edizione: 1
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
ISBN: 9781138967755

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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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