Format:
Online-Ressource (XI, 333 S.)
Edition:
2003
ISBN:
9783110895100
Series Statement:
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 25
Content:
Biographical note: Rong Chen is Professor at California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110178104
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chen, Rong, 1955 - English inversion Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003 ISBN 3110178109
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Inversion
DOI:
10.1515/9783110895100
URL:
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