Linguistic Inversion
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A Linguistic Inversion is a linguistic operation that ...
- See: Shifting (Linguistics), Linguistics, English Language, Subject–Auxiliary Inversion, English Auxiliaries, Subject (Grammar), Word Order, Phrase Structure Grammar, Discontinuity (Linguistics), Dependency Grammar, Indirect Question.
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2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(linguistics) Retrieved:2017-6-19.
- In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance, that is, they invert. The most frequent type of inversion in English is subject–auxiliary inversion in which an auxiliary verb changes places with its subject; it often occurs in questions, such as Are you coming?, with the subject you is switched with the auxiliary are. In many other languages, especially those with a freer word order than English, inversion can take place with a variety of verbs (not just auxiliaries) and with other syntactic categories as well.
When a layered constituency-based analysis of sentence structure is used, inversion often results in the discontinuity of a constituent, but that would not be the case with a flatter dependency-based analysis. In that regard, inversion has consequences similar to those of shifting.
- In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance, that is, they invert. The most frequent type of inversion in English is subject–auxiliary inversion in which an auxiliary verb changes places with its subject; it often occurs in questions, such as Are you coming?, with the subject you is switched with the auxiliary are. In many other languages, especially those with a freer word order than English, inversion can take place with a variety of verbs (not just auxiliaries) and with other syntactic categories as well.