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Publication details [#3934]

Green, Georgia M. 1982. Colloquial and literary uses in inversions. In Tannen, Deborah F., ed. Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 119–153.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | inversion | literary language | oral vs. written

Annotation

G. argues that it is not on the basis of spoken versus written language that speakers discriminate contexts for inversions, but on the basis of colloquial versus literary language.