A comprehensive corpus-based analysis of “X Auxiliary Subject” constructions in written and spoken English
This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of subject-auxiliary inversion in both spoken and written English. The focus of the analysis is Chen’s (2013) X Auxiliary Subject construction (XASC), where X codes the fronting of a constituent which triggers the inversion of the auxiliary and the subjec...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Topics in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2019-0007 |