Add to ORKGAbstract This paper provides support for the claim that non-canonical word-order adds “extra meaning ” to natural language utterances (Prince). In particular, it tells us about the informational status of the constituents. The case study in this paper is subject-auxiliary inversion in conditional antecedents. I argue that subject-auxiliary inversion in conditional antecedents indicates that the antecedent is GIVEN (Schwarzschild 1999). This proposal explains further pragmatic inferences such as why inverted conditionals are particularly good as reproaches
A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both indicati...
This paper analyzes English inversion as an 'alloform' (Birner 2013) of both preposing and postposin...
Inversion structures present a singular problem: arguments and sentential operators of the inverted ...
This paper provides support for the claim that non-canonical word-order adds "extra meaning" to natu...
The English auxiliary system is certainly one of the most frequently analyzed facets of any of the w...
Inversion in English may be classified roughly into two types: subject-verb inversion and subject-au...
The article discusses different descriptions and specific interpretations of inversion in English, o...
This paper focuses on the description of several controversial properties of Negative Inversion (NI)...
This article is about different types of Subject-Verb inversion (nominal, pronominal and complex inv...
This work explores the hypothesis that natural language is a tool for changing a language user's sta...
It is argued that contraposition is valid for a class of natural language conditionals, if some ...
The aim of this paper is to provide a straightforward and unified account for Subject-AUX inversion ...
The paper investigates the pragmatic effects of word order variation in German, specifically concern...
This thesis extends a view of human reasoning which emphasises a theory of interpretation in conditi...
It is usually accepted that conditional sentences are sui generis and enigmatic. In this paper I try...
A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both indicati...
This paper analyzes English inversion as an 'alloform' (Birner 2013) of both preposing and postposin...
Inversion structures present a singular problem: arguments and sentential operators of the inverted ...
This paper provides support for the claim that non-canonical word-order adds "extra meaning" to natu...
The English auxiliary system is certainly one of the most frequently analyzed facets of any of the w...
Inversion in English may be classified roughly into two types: subject-verb inversion and subject-au...
The article discusses different descriptions and specific interpretations of inversion in English, o...
This paper focuses on the description of several controversial properties of Negative Inversion (NI)...
This article is about different types of Subject-Verb inversion (nominal, pronominal and complex inv...
This work explores the hypothesis that natural language is a tool for changing a language user's sta...
It is argued that contraposition is valid for a class of natural language conditionals, if some ...
The aim of this paper is to provide a straightforward and unified account for Subject-AUX inversion ...
The paper investigates the pragmatic effects of word order variation in German, specifically concern...
This thesis extends a view of human reasoning which emphasises a theory of interpretation in conditi...
It is usually accepted that conditional sentences are sui generis and enigmatic. In this paper I try...
A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both indicati...
This paper analyzes English inversion as an 'alloform' (Birner 2013) of both preposing and postposin...
Inversion structures present a singular problem: arguments and sentential operators of the inverted ...