Ebook: The Discourse Function of Inversion in English
Author: Betty J. Birner
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- Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
- Year: 1996
- Publisher: Routledge
- Language: English
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A study of discourse-functional constraints on the use of a marked syntactic construction. Argues that inversion in clauses serves an information-packaging function, linking familiar and unfamiliar information in the discourse. Demonstrates a correlation between a well-defined type of giveness and c
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