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Peer reviewedBirner, Betty J. – Language, 1994
Presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an examination of a large corpus of naturally occurring tokens. It is argued that inversion serves an information-packaging function and that felicitous inversion depends on the relative discourse-familiarity of the information represented by the preposed and postposed…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Language Research, Language Usage
