Viewpoint and the Organisation of Informative Discourse [electronic resource] : On the Discourse Function of Full Inversion in English / Heidrun Dorgeloh.

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 re...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Dorgeloh, Heidrun
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1994.
Subjects:	Discourse Analysis. English. Foreign Countries. Language Patterns. Language Research. Sentence Structure. Structural Analysis (Linguistics) Syntax. Word Order.