Inversion In Modern English

Author : Heidrun Dorgeloh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027275823
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inversion in Modern English written by Heidrun Dorgeloh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction in terms of point of view and speaker subjectivity. This semantic claim is tested against the occurrence, as well as the absence, of the different forms of inversion in natural discourse. The analysis of the pragmatics and discourse function of inversion is based on the LOB and the Brown corpus and takes into account various textual relations: British and American English, written mode, style, text type, genre. The results suggest a strong affinity with the greater or lesser subjectivity of a text: the construction is a marker of interpersonal meaning. Provided the context is one of relative unexpectedness, it additionally becomes a discourse marker, which points to the limited value of quantitative corpus data in functional syntax.

Author : Rolf Kreyer
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823362272
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inversion in Modern Written English written by Rolf Kreyer and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heidrun Dorgeloh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027226164
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inversion in Modern English written by Heidrun Dorgeloh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction in terms of point of view and speaker subjectivity. This semantic claim is tested against the occurrence, as well as the absence, of the different forms of inversion in natural discourse. The analysis of the pragmatics and discourse function of inversion is based on the LOB and the Brown corpus and takes into account various textual relations: British and American English, written mode, style, text type, genre. The results suggest a strong affinity with the greater or lesser subjectivity of a text: the construction is a marker of interpersonal meaning. Provided the context is one of relative unexpectedness, it additionally becomes a discourse marker, which points to the limited value of quantitative corpus data in functional syntax.

Author : Bengt Jacobsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inversion in English written by Bengt Jacobsson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : José Carlos Prado Alonso
Publisher : Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inversion Written and Spoken Contemporary English. written by José Carlos Prado Alonso and published by Univ Santiago de Compostela. This book was released on 2008 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bengt Jacobsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inversion in English written by Bengt Jacobsson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rong Chen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110895102
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Inversion written by Rong Chen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : H. W. Fowler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615110
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Modern English Usage written by H. W. Fowler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard work of reference for the correct use of English in terms of choice of words, grammar, and style. Much loved for his firm opinions, passion, and dry humour, Fowler has stood the test of time and is still considered the best arbiter of good practice. In this new edition of the original Dictionary, David Crystal goes beyond the popular mythology surrounding Fowler's reputation to retrace his method and arrive at a fresh evaluation of his place in the history of linguistic thought. With a wealth of entertaining examples he looks at Fowler's stated principles and the tensions between his prescriptive and descriptive temperaments. He shows that the Dictionary does a great more than make normative recommendations and express private opinion. In addition he offers a modern perspective on some 300 entries, in which he shows how English has changed since the 1920s. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Ute Dons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311090604X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars written by Ute Dons and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period. For the first time, morphology and syntax as presented in Early Modern English grammars are systematically investigated as a whole. The statements of the contemporary grammarians are compared to hypotheses made in modern descriptions of Early Modern English and, where necessary, checked against the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus. Thus, a comprehensive overview of the characteristic features of Early Modern English is complemented by conclusions about the descriptive adequacy of Early Modern English grammars. It becomes evident that comments by contemporary authors occasionally reflect the corpus data more adequately than the statements found in modern secondary literature. This book is useful for (advanced) university students, as well as for scholars of English and grammarians in general.

Author : Henry Watson Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Modern English Usage written by Henry Watson Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: