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English Inversion : A Ground-before-Figure Construction / Rong Chen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 25Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110178104
  • 9783110895100
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 21
LOC classification:
  • PE1390 .C47 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110895100

Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)