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Dorgeloh, Heidrun – 1994
Locative inversion, one aspect of word order in English discourse in which the positions of verb and noun phrase are inverted (e.g., "in front of the house is a tree"), is examined. It is argued that inversions after deictic adverbs and those after non-deictic, locative constituents are related, both representing devices: (1) expressing point of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns