Information status and Word Order: An Analysis of English Inversion  

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Bimer, Betty J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 70 no. 2 (1994), page 233-259.
Fulltext: Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 233-259.pdf (661.5KB)

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This paper presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an examination of a large corpus of nalturally-occurring tokens. It is argued that inversion serves an intormation-palckaiging tfunction, and that felicitous inversion depends on the relative discourse-familiarity of the information represented by the preposed and post- posed constituents. The data moreover indicate that evoked elements and inferrable elements are treated alike with respect to inversion; both are treated as discourse-old information. Finally, it is suggested that discourse-familiarity correlates not with sub- jecthood, but rather with relative sentence position.*

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