English Inversion ：A Ground-before-Figure Construction ( Cognitive Linguistics Research CLR )

Publication subTitle ：A Ground-before-Figure Construction

Publication series ：Cognitive Linguistics Research CLR

Author： Rong Chen  

Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9783110895100

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110178104

Subject： H314 syntax

Language： ENG

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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. 

Chapter

Acknowledgments

pp.：  7 – 13

Chapter 1: Preliminaries

pp.：  13 – 14

1. Issues of inversion

pp.：  14 – 14

1.1. Types of inversion

pp.：  14 – 15

1.2. Peculiarities of inversion

pp.：  15 – 19

2. Previous research

pp.：  19 – 19

2.1. Syntactic accounts

pp.：  19 – 23

2.2. Functional accounts

pp.：  23 – 27

2.3. Information packaging: Birner (1996)

pp.：  27 – 37

2.4. Subjectivity and emotivity: Dorgeloh (1997)

pp.：  37 – 44

3. Relevant tenets of cognitive linguistics

pp.：  44 – 49

4.1. Inversion as a construction

pp.：  49 – 54

4. Other issues

pp.：  49 – 49

4.2. Data and judgment of acceptability

pp.：  54 – 56

Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation

pp.：  56 – 58

1. The GbF model

pp.：  58 – 68

2.1. LOC BE as the prototype

pp.：  68 – 72

2. LOC BE: The prototype

pp.：  68 – 68

2.2. LOC BE as instantiation of GbF

pp.：  72 – 80

2.3. Variations of LOC BE

pp.：  80 – 86

3. PATH Vm: From existence to motion

pp.：  86 – 87

3.1. PATH Vm: The central type

pp.：  87 – 102

3.2. TEMP Vm: From space to time

pp.：  102 – 106

4. NSPAT BE: From spatiality to nonspatiality

pp.：  106 – 112

5. A radial classification

pp.：  112 – 114

6. The phonology of inversion: A matter of focus

pp.：  114 – 115

6.1. Stress

pp.：  115 – 121

6.2. Intonation

pp.：  121 – 125

7. GbF and information packaging: A comparison

pp.：  125 – 131

1. Polarity

pp.：  131 – 146

Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints

pp.：  131 – 131

2. Transitivity

pp.：  146 – 161

3.1. Previous research

pp.：  161 – 165

3. Embeddedness

pp.：  161 – 161

3.2. Embeddability

pp.：  165 – 176

3.3. Embedded inversion

pp.：  176 – 185

4. Auxiliaries

pp.：  185 – 195

5. Weight

pp.：  195 – 203

6. Summary

pp.：  203 – 207

Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse

pp.：  207 – 209

1. Discourse types: A tripartite

pp.：  209 – 216

2.1. General discussion

pp.：  216 – 221

2. Inversion in description

pp.：  216 – 216

2.2. Ground-chaining

pp.：  221 – 228

2.3. Center-linking

pp.：  228 – 235

2.4. Multiple-anchoring

pp.：  235 – 240

2.5. Other approaches

pp.：  240 – 246

3. Inversion in narration

pp.：  246 – 261

4. Inversion in exposition

pp.：  261 – 266

5. Summary

pp.：  266 – 268

6. Inversion in parody

pp.：  268 – 278

1. Summary

pp.：  278 – 282

Chapter 5: Conclusion

pp.：  278 – 278

2. GbF representation in other languages

pp.：  282 – 289

Chapter 1

pp.：  289 – 292

Notes

pp.：  289 – 289

Chapter 2

pp.：  292 – 295

Chapter 3

pp.：  295 – 299

Chapter 4

pp.：  299 – 304

Chapter 5

pp.：  304 – 306

References

pp.：  306 – 330

Sources of examples

pp.：  330 – 332

Subject index

pp.：  332 – 341

Author index

pp.：  341 – 349

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