02977nam 2200649 450 991081676560332120230617013934.03-11-089510-210.1515/9783110895100(CKB)3390000000034192(SSID)ssj0001035765(PQKBManifestationID)11596994(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035765(PQKBWorkID)11033060(PQKB)11322300(MiAaPQ)EBC3042978(DE-B1597)56257(OCoLC)1013957545(OCoLC)1037935268(OCoLC)1042001635(OCoLC)1043601875(OCoLC)853259961(DE-B1597)9783110895100(Au-PeEL)EBL3042978(CaPaEBR)ebr10755154(OCoLC)922946075(EXLCZ)99339000000003419220030502d2003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrEnglish inversion a ground-before-figure construction /by Rong ChenReprint 2013Berlin ;New York :Mouton de Gruyter,2003.1 online resource (348 pages)Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ;25Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-11-180611-1 3-11-017810-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-319) and indexes.Front matter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Chapter 1: Preliminaries --Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation --Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints --Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse --Chapter 5: Conclusion --Notes --References --Sources of examples --Subject index --Author index --Cognitive Linguistics ResearchThe 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.English languageWord orderGrammar, Comparative and generalWord orderEnglish languageWord order.Grammar, Comparative and generalWord order.425Chen Rong1955-1691839MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816765603321English inversion4068529UNINA