English Inversion
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English Inversion

A Ground-before-Figure Construction

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

English Inversion

A Ground-before-Figure Construction

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110178104
eBook ISBN
9783110895100
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Chapter 1: Preliminaries
  3. 1. Issues of inversion
  4. 1.1. Types of inversion
  5. 1.2. Peculiarities of inversion
  6. 2. Previous research
  7. 2.1. Syntactic accounts
  8. 2.2. Functional accounts
  9. 2.3. Information packaging: Birner (1996)
  10. 2.4. Subjectivity and emotivity: Dorgeloh (1997)
  11. 3. Relevant tenets of cognitive linguistics
  12. 4. Other issues
  13. 4.1. Inversion as a construction
  14. 4.2. Data and judgment of acceptability
  15. Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation
  16. 1. The GbF model
  17. 2. LOC BE: The prototype
  18. 2.1. LOC BE as the prototype
  19. 2.2. LOC BE as instantiation of GbF
  20. 2.3. Variations of LOC BE
  21. 3. PATH Vm: From existence to motion
  22. 3.1. PATH Vm: The central type
  23. 3.2. TEMP Vm: From space to time
  24. 4. NSPAT BE: From spatiality to nonspatiality
  25. 5. A radial classification
  26. 6. The phonology of inversion: A matter of focus
  27. 6.1. Stress
  28. 6.2. Intonation
  29. 7. GbF and information packaging: A comparison
  30. Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints
  31. 1. Polarity
  32. 2. Transitivity
  33. 3. Embeddedness
  34. 3.1. Previous research
  35. 3.2. Embeddability
  36. 3.3. Embedded inversion
  37. 4. Auxiliaries
  38. 5. Weight
  39. 6. Summary
  40. Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse
  41. 1. Discourse types: A tripartite
  42. 2. Inversion in description
  43. 2.1. General discussion
  44. 2.2. Ground-chaining
  45. 2.3. Center-linking
  46. 2.4. Multiple-anchoring
  47. 2.5. Other approaches
  48. 3. Inversion in narration
  49. 4. Inversion in exposition
  50. 5. Summary
  51. 6. Inversion in parody
  52. Chapter 5: Conclusion
  53. 1. Summary
  54. 2. GbF representation in other languages
  55. Notes
  56. Chapter 1
  57. Chapter 2
  58. Chapter 3
  59. Chapter 4
  60. Chapter 5
  61. References
  62. Sources of examples
  63. Subject index
  64. Author index