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List of Figures
Lecture 1 Introduction
English word order and English inversion
Basic tenets of cognitive linguistics
Lecture 2 The Ground before Figure Cognitive Model
Previous accounts of FVI
Ground before Figure
Lecture 3 Classification of FVIs
Towards a radial classification of FVI
The phonology ofFVI: A matter of focus
Lecture 4 Semantic and Structural Properties of FVIs
Polarity
Transitivity
Lecture 5 Properties of FVIs Continued
Embeddedness
Auxiliaries
Weight
Lecture 6 FVIs in Discourse
FVIs in description
FVIs in narration
FVIs in exposition
Lecture 7 The There-Existential Construction
There-existential as a default instantiation of GbF
Other issues of the there-existential explained
Lecture 8 The SAI Construction
The ASC: a construction of mood
The XASC: a construction of focus
Lecture 9 The Issue of Invertability
The Invertability Hypothesis
Hypothesis applied
Lecture 10 Conclusion
Summary
Inversion and cognitive linguistics
References
Sources of Examples