Exclamatory-inversion sentences (EISs) like Boy, is syntax easy! are commonly analysed as syntactically and/or semantically quite different from interrogatives/questions like Have you ever been to Paris? The major source is N. McCawley (1973), but the analysis and several of her arguments are repeated in recent literature. The present paper examines the arguments, and finds that the evidence doesn't support a syntactic/semantic distinction between EISs and inverted interrogatives/questions: the differences are more appropriately handled pragmatically
While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitiv...
We use inversion in several different situations in English. Inversion just means putting the verb b...
Embedded inverted questions (EIQs) in English dialects are a quasi-quotational method for reporting ...
The article discusses different descriptions and specific interpretations of inversion in English, o...
The article deals with some internal theoretical controversies in the concept and the use of the ter...
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Inversion constructions (declarative sentience constructions in which the subject follows part or al...
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...
The authors examine syntactic accounts proposed to explain the acquisition of auxiliary inversion ...
Inversion in English may be classified roughly into two types: subject-verb inversion and subject-au...
In English, each member of a sentence, as you know, has a common place, determined by the way it is ...
Explanation of the cause of inversion in declarative sentences in modern English by rhythm, psy- "ho...
In this paper we will discuss the exclamative values of some question tags and of the quantifier som...
The correlation of syntactic form with discourse function has become a central research area in ling...
While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitiv...
We use inversion in several different situations in English. Inversion just means putting the verb b...
Embedded inverted questions (EIQs) in English dialects are a quasi-quotational method for reporting ...
The article discusses different descriptions and specific interpretations of inversion in English, o...
The article deals with some internal theoretical controversies in the concept and the use of the ter...
This paper tackles the issue of how best to represent syntactically English how pseudo-questions (HP...
Inversion constructions (declarative sentience constructions in which the subject follows part or al...
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...
The authors examine syntactic accounts proposed to explain the acquisition of auxiliary inversion ...
Inversion in English may be classified roughly into two types: subject-verb inversion and subject-au...
In English, each member of a sentence, as you know, has a common place, determined by the way it is ...
Explanation of the cause of inversion in declarative sentences in modern English by rhythm, psy- "ho...
In this paper we will discuss the exclamative values of some question tags and of the quantifier som...
The correlation of syntactic form with discourse function has become a central research area in ling...
While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitiv...
We use inversion in several different situations in English. Inversion just means putting the verb b...
Embedded inverted questions (EIQs) in English dialects are a quasi-quotational method for reporting ...