Obligatory inversion in scientific texts
Obligatory inversion in scientific texts
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科学文本中的强制倒装
DOI：
10.1080/00393274.2019.1652112
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发表时间：
2019
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0.4
通讯作者：
Carlos Prado
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作者：
Carlos Prado
摘要本文基于语料库对科技语篇中的强制性倒装句和主语-算子倒装句进行了分析。这些倒装是由某些固定的动词前成分强制触发的--如“这里有一些例子”或“他们也不知道权利标准”--因为它们在上下文中不能被具有SVX规范语序的可比分句替换，因为这在语法上是不可用的或传达了不同的含义。在统计分析的基础上，作者认为这些结构在科技语篇中的分布与说话人对语篇的参与程度有关。进一步认为，从语料库中检索到的不同类型的强制性倒装可以被视为话语标记，传达说话者参与科学写作的情况。它将被证明，一些强制性的倒装允许收件人的存在，以改变收件人的兴趣或注意力在文本中的焦点，而其他倒装允许收件人强调倒装句中的特定成分，从而强调比较，限制或否定的意义。
ABSTRACT This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of obligatory full inverted and subject-operator inverted constructions in scientific texts. These are inversions obligatorily triggered by certain fixed preverbal constituents – as in ‘Here are some examples’ or ‘Nor did they know the entitlement criteria’ – since they are not replaceable in context by a comparable clause with SVX canonical word order because this is grammatically unavailable or conveys a different meaning. On the basis of a statistical analysis, it is argued that the distribution of these constructions in scientific texts is related to the degree of the addressor’s involvement in the text in question. It is further argued that the different types of obligatory inversions retrieved from the corpus may be seen to serve as discourse markers which convey addressor’s involvement in scientific writing. It will be shown that some obligatory inversions allow the presence of the addressor to change the addressee’s focus of interest or attention in the text, while other inversions allow the addressor to stress a particular constituent in the inverted clause, thus emphasising a comparative, restrictive or negative meaning.