English inversion : a ground-before-figure construction / / by Rong Chen

• Autore: Chen Rong <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2003
• Edizione: Reprint 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 pages)
• Disciplina: 425
• Soggetto topico: English language - Word order; Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-319) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Research
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: English inversion
• ISBN: 3-11-089510-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816765603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II