English Inversion: A Ground-before-Figure Construction
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Beteilige Person: Chen, Rong (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter 2003
Schriftenreihe:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 25
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895100
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895100
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895100
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-319) and indexes
Biographical note: Rong Chen is Professor at California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
Main description: 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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 333 S.)
ISBN:9783110178104
9783110895100
9783111806112
DOI:10.1515/9783110895100