TY - BOOK ID - 18395774 TI - English Inversion PY - 2013 VL - 25 SN - 3110178109 3111806111 3110895102 9783110895100 9783110178104 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Word order. KW - 802.0-56 KW - 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek KW - Engels: syntaxis; semantiek KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Language and languages KW - Word order KW - Adverb KW - Position KW - Infinitive, Split KW - Split infinitive KW - Order (Grammar) KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18395774 AB - 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. ER -