Where stylistic and syntactic processes meet: Locative inversion in English  

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Coopmans, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 65 no. 4 (Nov. 1989), page 728-751.
Fulltext: WHERE STYLISTIC AND SYNTACTIC PROCESSES MEET.pdf (555.6KB)

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In this paper I argue that there is no unique grammatical process called 'stylistic locative inversion' in English; its properties can be stated in purely syntactic terms if insights about similar constructions in Italian and Dutch are adapted to English. Stylistic locative inversion exemplifies what is sometimes referred to as 'semi-pro-drop', the existence in a language of an empty expletive subject. The language-particular trigger for this exceptional phenomenon in English is located in COMP, explaining in part the root nature of the phenomenon. The proposed analysis sheds new light on a syntactic account of the related presentational there-construction, which is discussed briefly at the end of the paper. *

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