English Locative Inversion A corpus based analysis of differences between genres, years and varieties

Full verb inversion (henceforth full inversion), i.e. when the grammatical subject comes after the entire verb phrase in a declarative clause, has been the subject of many linguists’ attention for some decades now. It has been difficult for researchers to agree on why people use this marked construction, in both written and spoken texts (as full inversion occurs frequently in spoken language as well as written as pointed out by Prado-Alonso & Acuña-Fariña (2010)). Different approaches have been made and it is probably safe to say that, even today, no one has found an answer that explains every aspect of full inversion