In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance, that is, they invert...

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

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

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...

auxiliaries based upon two diagnostics: they allow subject–auxiliary inversion (the type of inversion used to form questions etc.) and (equivalently) they can take...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

In linguistics, a copula (pl.: copulas or copulae; abbreviated cop) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement,...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

The arrangement of words in order of increasing importance Anastrophe – Inversion of the usual word order Parenthesis – Insertion of a clause or sentence...

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

participate in inversion locative or temporal adverb first prepositional phrase first (see locative inversion, directive inversion) After the two latter...

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...

in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague, Moscow, and Copenhagen schools of linguistics. As an intellectual...

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...