3.2 Focus-based accounts3.3 Other accounts; 3.3.1 Green 1980; 3.3.2 Hartvigson and Jakobsen 1974; 3.3.3 Penhallurick 1984; 3.4 Summary; 4 The Function of Inversion; 4.1 Theoretical background; 4.2 Analysis of the corpus; 4.3 Results and discussion; 4.4 Inferrables; 4.5 Containing inferrables; 4.6 Definiteness; 4.7 Conclusions; 5 Verbs and Related Issues; 5.1 The characteristics of BI and NBI; 5.2 The verbs of inversion; 5.3 Inversion and open propositions; 5.4 Intonation; 5.4.1 Preposed constituent; 5.4.2 Postposed constituent; 5.5 Conclusions; 6 Summary and Conclusions
6.1 Implications for future researchAppendix: Coding Factors and Results; Notes; Sources for Tokens; References; Index
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