In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their typical or expected order of appearance, that...

Inversions (album), a 2019 album by Belinda O'Hooley Inversion (film), a 2016 Iranian film Inversion (linguistics), grammatical constructions where two expressions...

In linguistics, negative inversion is one of many types of subject–auxiliary inversion in English. A negation (e.g. not, no, never, nothing, etc.) or...

Subject–verb inversion in English is a type of inversion marked by a predicate verb that precedes a corresponding subject, e.g., "Beside the bed stood...

subject-auxiliary inversion present c. We know whom Larry sent to the store. – Embedded wh-clause focusing on the object, subject-auxiliary inversion absent a...

subject–auxiliary inversion can occur with an auxiliary verb but not with a full verb. (The asterisk * is the means commonly used in linguistics to indicate...

Pied-piping with inversion is a special word order phenomenon found in some languages, such as those in the Mesoamerican linguistic area. The phenomenon...

In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal...

the history of English: the development of quotative inversion". English Language and Linguistics. 23 (1): 183–214. doi:10.1017/S1360674317000594. S2CID 125456450...

subject. In the second sentence, which involves the subject-auxiliary inversion of a yes/no-question, the subject immediately follows the finite verb...

creology, is the study of creole languages and, as such, is a subfield of linguistics. Someone who engages in this study is called a creolist. The precise...

In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...

Discontinuity Extraposition Gapping Inversion Logical form (linguistics) Move alpha PRO (linguistics) Raising (linguistics) Scope (formal semantics) Scrambling...

Subject–auxiliary inversion (SAI; also called subject–operator inversion) is a frequently occurring type of inversion in the English language whereby...

Atmospheric stratification, the dividing of the Earth's atmosphere into strata Inversion (meteorology) Social stratification, the dividing of a society into levels...

Gender Gerund Government Head Head marking Infinitive Inversion Lexical item Logical form (linguistics) m-command Measure word (classifier) Merge Modal particle...

In linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of...

In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky...

speech form spoken in the village of Totoi in Romania. It consists in the inversion of syllables of Romanian words in a way that results unintelligible for...

paradoxes Negative inversion Non-configurational language Parasitic gaps Pied-piping Pro-drop Pseudogapping Raising (linguistics) Reciprocal (grammar)...

In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written...

Ferdinand de Saussure on linguistics along with the linguistics of the Prague and Moscow schools. In brief, Saussure's structural linguistics propounded three...

In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from...

Sexual inversion is a theory of homosexuality popular primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. Sexual inversion was believed to be an inborn...

this?" allow many possible resolutions. Questions are widely studied in linguistics and philosophy of language. In the subfield of pragmatics, questions...

In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative...

from having lost the inversions in common use. If the same example in Norwegian were translated to English with the inversions intact: (2a) Barna child-DEF-PL...

In linguistics, homonyms are words which are either homographs—words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones—words that...

(don't) know. The same applies in clauses requiring inversion, including most questions—inversion must involve the subject and an auxiliary verb, so it...

quite a few airplanes.' A subtype of inverted sentence is called locative inversion since in many languages the preverbal position is filled with a locative...