Inversions in Modern English

This project is devoted to the problem of inversion in modern English language. Being a
language phenomenon, inversion presents huge interest for linguists and other language scientists
as its character is very complicated and is not completely explored. Because of its complexity,
inversion has generated a large amount of research.

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………...4
Chapter I. WHAT IS MODERN ENGLISH INVERSION? .......................................................... 2
1.1. DEFINITION AND GENERAL TYPOLOGY ............................................................... 2
1.2. PREVIOUS RESEARCH ................................................................................................ 6
1.3. PROBLEMS................................................................................................................... 13
Chapter II. INVERSION: FOCUS ON THE WEIGHT OF THE SENTENCE........................... 15
2.1. BALANCE INVERSION .............................................................................................. 16
2.2. INVERSION IN RELATIVE CLAUSES...................................................................... 20
Chapter III. TYPES OF INVERSION: FOCUS ON GRAMMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF WORDORDER.........................................................................................................................................
21
3.1. SUBJECT-VERB INVERSION .................................................................................... 22
3.2. SUBJECT-OPERATOR INVERSION.......................................................................... 25
Chapter IV. INVERSION AS GROUND-BEFORE-FIGURE ISTANTIATION ....................... 31
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................. 34
BIBLIOGRAPHY.....................................................