By Rong Chen
The e-book presents an account of English inversion, a development that screens complicated idiosyncrasies on the point of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his significant argument at the declare that inversion is a linguistic illustration of a Ground-before-Figure version, the writer develops a chic approach to a hitherto unsolved multidimensional linguistic puzzle and, within the technique, helps the theoretical place cognitive process most closely fits the multidimensionality of language itself. Engagingly written, the e-book will attract linguists of all persuasions and to any reader thinking about the connection among language and cognition.
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64a). (55) *John says that standing in the corner is a man with a camera, and he's wrong. (Dorgeloh 1997: 98, ex. 64b, grammaticality judgment original). Previous research 29 However, the following examples, from Birner (1996), suggest that the embeddedness of inversion has nothing to do with speaker orientation, as the speaker in each case clearly disassociates herself from the proposition expressed in the embedded inversion. (56) I don't believe the report that in the garden stands a unicorn.
From the latter variant, a sentence like Jill was given a bracelet by Jack is assembled... (Langacker 1991: 467) The concept of variant entails a choice - speakers can choose one variant over another according to a host of considerations. Notice that the concept of variant is neutral: it does not indicate which is the underlying, which the derivative. Following this, I will assume that inversion and its non-inverted counterpart are word-order variants that denote the same event and express the same proposition, differing in how the speaker directs her hearer to view, to construe, and to conceptualize the event in question.
There are also five similar examples in my corpus. Example (36) is one of them: (36) The pot bubbled and bubbled. " "It is cooking fast now," said the hungry young man. " So the little old lady went to the garden to get some yellow onions. Into the pot went the yellow onions. (Stone) As is the case with (34) and (35), it is the postverbal element - the yellow onions - that is mentioned more recently, in the immediately previous sentence. The preverbal element - the pot - is mentioned four sentences earlier.