It takes the average reader 2 hours and 44 minutes to read The Discourse Function of Inversion in English by Betty Birner
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First published in 1997. This dissertation presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an empirical study of natural language data. The central finding is that inversion is subject to a pragmatic constraint on the information status of its constituents; specifically, the information represented by the preposed constituent must be at least as familiar within the discourse as is that represented by the postposed constituent.
The Discourse Function of Inversion in English by Betty Birner is 163 pages long, and a total of 41,239 words.
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