UID:
edocfu_9959229248202883
Format:
1 online resource (348 pages)
Edition:
Reprint 2013
ISBN:
3-11-089510-2
Series Statement:
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 25
Content:
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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front matter --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contents --
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Chapter 1: Preliminaries --
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Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation --
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Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints --
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Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse --
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Chapter 5: Conclusion --
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Notes --
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References --
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Sources of examples --
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Subject index --
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Author index --
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Cognitive Linguistics Research
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-180611-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-017810-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110895100
