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Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
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232] 2021
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Chapter 11
Word order and related syntactic choices
Article outline
11.1
Overview
11.1.1
Information flow
11.1.2
Focus, emphasis, contrast, and intensification
11.1.3
Weight
11.2
Word order
11.2.1
Grammatical principles of word order
11.2.2
Fronting
11.2.2.1
Fronted objects and other nominals
11.2.2.2
Fronted predicatives
11.2.2.3
Fronted infinitive predicates
11.2.2.4
Fronted ed- and ing-predicates
11.2.2.5
Fronting in dependent clauses
11.2.2.6
Fronting in exclamations
11.2.2.7
Fronting: Distribution
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.2.3
Inversion of subject and verb or operator
11.2.3.1
Subject-verb inversion
11.2.3.2
Subject-operator inversion
11.2.3.3
Inversion after the linking forms so, nor, and neither
11.2.3.4
Special cases of inversion in independent clauses
11.2.3.5
Inversion in dependent clauses
11.2.3.6
Inversion in reporting clauses
11.2.3.7
Reporting clauses in fiction and news
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.2.3.8
Inversion in general: Distribution
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.2.4
Word-order options at the end of the clause
11.2.4.1
The placement of direct and indirect objects
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.2.4.2
Pronoun sequences as direct and indirect object
corpus findings
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
11.2.4.3
Clauses with direct objects and object predicatives
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.2.4.4
The placement of objects of phrasal verbs
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.3
The passive
11.3.1
Types of passive construction
11.3.2
Passives across syntactic positions and registers
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.3.3
The long passive
11.3.3.1
Length of subject v. agent phrase in long passives
corpus findings
,
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
11.3.3.2
Givenness of subject v. agent phrase
corpus findings
,
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
11.3.4
Comparison of discourse functions of the long and short passive
11.4
Existential there
11.4.1
The grammatical status of existential there
11.4.2
Variation in the verb phrase
11.4.2.1
Verb constructions other than simple be
CORPUS FINDING
discussion of findings
11.4.3
The notional subject
11.4.4
Adverbial expansions
11.4.5
Existential and locative there
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.4.6
Simple v. complex existential clauses
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.4.7
Discourse functions of existential clauses
11.4.8
Existential clause v. locative inversion
11.4.8.1
Existential clause v. locative inversion: Distribution
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.4.9
Existential constructions with there v. have
11.5
Dislocation
11.5.1
Prefaces
11.5.2
Noun phrase tags
11.5.3
Prefaces and noun phrase tags: Distribution
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.6
Clefting
11.6.1
It-clefts
11.6.2
Wh-clefts
11.6.3
Reversed wh-clefts
11.6.4
Cleft constructions: Distribution
corpus findings
discussion of findings
11.7
Syntactic choices in conversation v. academic prose