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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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 204 ● ISBN 9781136753985 ● 出版者 Taylor and Francis ● 发布时间 2014 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 3152301 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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