A Minimalist Approach to Inversion Constructions in English
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This paper argues that stylistic inversion should be analyzed differently from SAI, which is an instance of narrow syntax. Stylistic inversion is argued to be the consequence of direct interactions that syntax requires of phonology and semantics. We scrutinize common characteristics of stylistic inversion, and then conclude that the sentence-final subject of stylistic inversion does not raise to cannonical TP subject position, but stays low within the verb phrase. Theoretically, the subject appearing post-verbal position is due to non-application of the EPP, which requires that the subject must be filled. The motivation is that the sentence-final subject differs from the canonical TP subject, in that it receives some kind of focus. The focus property is generally caused by the subject appearing post-verbally, which also creates prosodic highlighting. Every stylistic construction has its own idiosyncratic properties, which are also systematically analyzed in a derivational way. In particular, so-inversion is assumed to be a mixed phenomenon between SAI and stylistic inversion. Also, we showed that quotative inversion allows, though normally unexpected in English, (V-to-T) movement of finite verbs.
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This paper argues that stylistic inversion should be analyzed differently from SAI, which is an instance of narrow syntax. Stylistic inversion is argued to be the consequence of direct interactions that syntax requires of phonology and semantics. We scrutinize common characteristics of stylistic inversion, and then conclude that the sentence-final subject of stylistic inversion does not raise to cannonical TP subject position, but stays low within the verb phrase. Theoretically, the subject appearing post-verbal position is due to non-application of the EPP, which requires that the subject must be filled. The motivation is that the sentence-final subject differs from the canonical TP subject, in that it receives some kind of focus. The focus property is generally caused by the subject appearing post-verbally, which also creates prosodic highlighting. Every stylistic construction has its own idiosyncratic properties, which are also systematically analyzed in a derivational way. In particular, so-inversion is assumed to be a mixed phenomenon between SAI and stylistic inversion. Also, we showed that quotative inversion allows, though normally unexpected in English, (V-to-T) movement of finite verbs.
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