<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt">Joo, the constructions you mentioned are impersonal. Such constructions are apparently disregarded in the literature on subject inversion (Barbosa 2009 and others).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt">Christian, the definition of subject-verb inversion is “subject-verb inversion occurs when both SV and VS orders are possible in declarative sentences.” As mentioned earlier, the verb must be transitive and the subject must be referential (non-impersonal).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt">Best,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt">Ernei</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"></span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:31 PM Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear Ernei,</p>
<p>before you proceed to test your hypotheses, it may be useful to
first define 'subject-verb inversion'. See:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/grammar/morph_syn/Inversion_der_Hauptkonstituenten.html" target="_blank">https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/grammar/morph_syn/Inversion_der_Hauptkonstituenten.html</a></p>
<p>Best,<br>
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<p>Christian<br>
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