English Inversion

Rong Chen

De Gruyter, 2003

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Here, Rong Chen provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax and pragmatics. The argument is based on the claim that inversion is a linguistic representation of a Ground-before-Figure model.

ISBN-13
9783110178104
ISBN-10
3110178109
Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2003
Publication date
2003-06-19
Pages
344
Dimensions
230x155x
Weight
621