Inversion in Modern Written English

Inversion in Modern Written English
Author: Rolf Kreyer
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783823362272

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Inversion in Modern English

Inversion in Modern English
Author: Heidrun Dorgeloh
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1997-03-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027275823

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The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction in terms of point of view and speaker subjectivity. This semantic claim is tested against the occurrence, as well as the absence, of the different forms of inversion in natural discourse. The analysis of the pragmatics and discourse function of inversion is based on the LOB and the Brown corpus and takes into account various textual relations: British and American English, written mode, style, text type, genre. The results suggest a strong affinity with the greater or lesser subjectivity of a text: the construction is a marker of interpersonal meaning. Provided the context is one of relative unexpectedness, it additionally becomes a discourse marker, which points to the limited value of quantitative corpus data in functional syntax.

English Inversion

English Inversion
Author: Rong Chen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110895102

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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 develops an elegant solution to a hitherto unsolved multidimensional linguistic puzzle and, in the process, supports the theoretical position that a cognitive approach best suits the multidimensionality of language itself. Engagingly written, the book will appeal to linguists of all persuasions and to any reader curious about the relationship between language and cognition.

The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers

The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers
Author: Ron Cowan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2008-05-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521809733

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"The Teacher's grammar of English enables English language teachers and teachers-in-training to fully understand and effectively teach English grammar. With comprehensive presentation of form, meaning, and usage, along with practical exercises and advice on teaaching difficult structures, it is both a complete grammar course and an essential reference text."--Back cover.

Inversion in English

Inversion in English
Author: Bengt Jacobsson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1951
Genre: English language
ISBN:

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Cahiers de Recherche Tome 9 - Points de vue sur l'inversion

Cahiers de Recherche Tome 9 - Points de vue sur l'inversion
Author: Christine Copy
Publisher: Editions OPHRYS
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2007-07-27
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9782708011526

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Ce numéro, réservé à un fait de langue plutôt qu'à une école théorique, s'adresse en priorité à tous ceux - étudiants de master ou de concours, chercheurs débutants ou confirmés - qui sont intéressés par la question de l'ordre des mots et de l'inversion du sujet (V-S ou LOC-V-S ou ADJ-V-S) dans la phrase assertive. Le but des responsables du volume (Christine Copy & Lucie Gournay) a été de regrouper dans un même recueil des articles ou des synthèses relevant d'approches différentes sur un phénomène qui est largement débattu en ce moment par un bon nombre de linguistes, en particulier par les linguistes énonciativistes. Au-delà des clivages théoriques, ou de la variété des disciplines, il a semblé pertinent de regrouper sous une même couverture les problématiques et les hypothèses formulées par les spécialistes de la question. En effet, toutes les contributions proviennent de chercheurs qui ont déjà travaillé sur des problèmes d'agencement de phrases. De plus, dans chaque contribution, il est fait mention des acquis des approches " adverses "... et l'on se rend compte que la confrontation va de pair avec une certaine complémentarité. Ainsi cet ouvrage a une double ambition : concerner tous ceux qui travaillent sur l'ordre des mots en français et en anglais, apporter une contribution non négligeable à la comparaison des idées en linguistique.

Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on

Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9401204349

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This volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: “Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies”, “Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics”, and “Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora”. The book bears witness to the impressive advances that have characterised the development of corpus linguistics over the past few decades – from terminological issues to practical applications, from theoretical and descriptive research to applied approaches, from monolingual to multilingual and specialist corpora, from corpus design to corpus exploitation tools.

Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Naturalness and Iconicity in Language
Author: Klaas Willems
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027243433

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This volume examines unresolved issues in iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics, linguistic iconicity in semiotics, iconic structures in Sign Languages, natural and unnatural sound patterns, the iconic nature of parts of speech, the relation between (un)markedness and naturalness, and lexical and syntactic iconicity.

Inversion in English

Inversion in English
Author: Bengt Jacobsson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1951
Genre:
ISBN:

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