Subject-operator inversion in sentences with fronted only

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Subject-operator inversion in sentences with fronted only
Original language description
This paper reports results of a corpus-based analysis of subject-operator inversion in sentences with fronted only in British English as represented by the British National Corpus. Sentences with sentence-initial only were examined and the presence or absence of inversion was pondered with respect to the function of only in these sentences. Special attention was paid to the word order after only focusing a fronted adverbial element, where the usage is split between inverting and not inverting. It turnsout that the most reliable criterion is the form of the adverbial: subject-operator inversion always occurs if the adverbial is expressed by an adverb phrase, prepositional phrase or a clause, and it does not occur if the adverbial is expressed by a nounphrase.
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Theories and Practice. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on English and American Studies
ISBN
978-80-7454-089-9
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Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
65-78
Publisher name
Univerzita Tomáše Bati
Place of publication
Zlín
Event location
Zlín
Event date
Sep 7, 2010
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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