UID:
edocfu_9958355024702883
Format:
1 online resource(xi,333p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2003. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9783110895100
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:
Frontmatter --
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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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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110178104
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111806112
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110895100
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895100
