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The Discourse Function of Inversion in English
Betty J. Birner
出版Taylor & Francis, 1996
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN08153255689780815325567
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wVdeOsPB-q4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.