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Publication details [#31392]

Birner, Betty J. 1995. Pragmatic constraints on the verb in English inversion. Lingua 97 (4) : 233–256.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse | inversion | pragmatics | verb

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0024-3841

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that the verb in English inversion is subject to the pragmatic constraint that it must not represent new information in the discourse.