English Inversion : : A Ground-before-Figure Construction / / Rong Chen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Chen, Rong,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Chapter 1: Preliminaries --; Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation --; Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints --; Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse --; Chapter 5: Conclusion --; Notes --; References --; Sources of examples --; Subject index --; Author index --; Cognitive Linguistics Research
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110895100; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4132
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110895100
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rong Chen.

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.