automatisk svar ved fravær (was Re: Rong Chen: English Inversion. A Ground-before-Figure Construction (2003))

Tue Aug 19 08:41:14 UTC 2003

At 15:18 16.07.2003 +0200, you wrote:
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> >From the Series
>COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH
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>Series Editors: René Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, and John R. Taylor
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>Rong Chen
>
>ENGLISH INVERSION
>A Ground-before-Figure Construction
>
>
>2003. xi, 333 pages. Cloth.
>Euro 78.00 / sFr 125.00 / approx. US$ 86.00
>ISBN 3-11-017810-9
>(Cognitive Linguistics Research 25)
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>
>The author provides an account of English inversion, a construction that 
>displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, 
>syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his central argument on the claim that 
>inversion is a linguistic representation of a Ground-before-Figure model, 
>the author develops an elegant solution to a hitherto unsolved 
>multidimensional linguistic puzzle and, in the process, supports the 
>theoretical position that a cognitive approach best suits the 
>multidimensionality of language itself. Engagingly written, the book 
>appeals to linguists of all persuasions and to any reader curious about 
>the relationship between language and cognition.
>Rong Chen is Professor at California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
>
>
>FROM THE CONTENTS:
>
>Chapter 1: Preliminaries
>1. Issues of inversion
>2. Previous research
>3. Relevant tenets of cognitive linguistics
>4. Other issues
>
>Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation
>1. The GbF model
>2. LOC BE: The prototype
>3. PATH Vm: From existence to motion
>4. NSPAT BE: From spatiality to nonspatiality
>5. A radial classification
>6. The phonology of inversion: A matter of focus
>7. GbF and information packaging: A comparison
>
>Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints
>1. Polarity
>2. Transitivity
>3. Embeddedness
>4. Auxiliaries
>5. Weight
>6. Summary
>
>Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse
>1. Discourse types: A tripartite
>2. Inversion in description
>3. Inversion in narration
>4. Inversion in exposition
>5. Summary
>6. Inversion in parody
>
>Chapter 5: Conclusion
>1. Summary
>2. GbF representation in other languages
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Marie Sundve Sannan
Germanistisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo
Postboks 1004, Blindern
0315 OSLO

Besøksadresse: rom 614, Niels Treschows hus

tel:+47-22 85 50 75
faks: +47-22 85 68 87
e-post: m.s.sannan at german.uio.no

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