Adverbials and inversion in early English scientific writing

Název: Adverbials and inversion in early English scientific writing
Zdrojový dokument: Brno studies in English. 2016, roč. 42, č. 1, s. [113]-133
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[113]-133
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    0524-6881 (print)
    1805-0867 (online)
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Abstrakt(y)
English shifted from being basically verb final in Old English (Traugott 1992: 274) to verb non-final from Middle English onwards (Fischer 1992: 371). From a diachronic standpoint, however, Old English can feature inversion whenever an object, an adverbial or a PP is fronted, while in Middle English it is exclusively witnessed when a wh-element or a negative constituent occupies first position (van Kemenade 1987: 180). Interestingly enough, recent research demonstrates that inversion after fronted adverbials is found in the early Modern English period (Nevalainen 1997: 213). All this considered, this paper pursues the following objectives: 1) to analyse the occurrence of inversion when adverbials or negative constituents are fronted in early English scientific prose; 2) to investigate the phenomenon across subgenres; and 3) to evaluate the influence of the typology of inversion, the typology of the subject and the taxonomy of inverted verbs. The data come from The Corpus of Early English Medical Writing.
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