Table of Contents - 7 -- Acknowledgements - 11 -- Introduction - 13 -- 1. Full-verb Inversion in Present-day English:A Preliminary Account - 17 -- 1.1 Definition - 18 -- 1.2 Types of inversion excluded from the analysis - 19 -- 1.2.1 Subject-operator inversion - 19 -- 1.2.2 Inversion in conditional clauses and formulaic expressions - 21 -- 1.2.3 Inversion in interrogative and exclamative clauses - 22 -- 1.2.4 Additional types of inversion excluded - 23 -- 1.2.5 Quotation or journalistic style inversion - 23 -- 1.3 A classification of full inversion based onformal criteria - 25 -- 1.4 Some structural patterns related to full inversion - 34 -- 1.4.1 Existential-'there' - 35 -- 1.4.2 Preposing - 39 -- 1.4.3 Left-dislocation - 41 -- 1.4.4 Equatives - 43 -- 2. Research on Full Inversion - 47 -- 2.1 Syntactic accounts - 49 -- 2.2 Functional accounts - 52 -- 2.2.1 The textual or discourse-related account - 53 -- 2.2.2 The information-packaging account - 61 -- 2.3 Point of view and focus management: Dorgeloh (1997) - 70 -- 2.4 Syntactic complexity and information status: Kreyer (2006) - 76 -- 2.5 Full inversion as a ground-before-figure construction: Chen (2003) - 90 -- 2.6 Summary and conclusions - 104 -- 3. Survey of the Corpora - 109 -- 3.1 The written corpora: FLOB and FROWN - 109 -- 3.2 The spoken corpora: ICE-GB and CSPAE - 114 -- 3.3 Database design: sampling the corpus - 120 -- 3.3.1 Sampling the written data - 121 -- 3.3.2 Sampling the spoken data - 128 -- 3.4 Methodology: manual vs. automated searching systems - 130 -- 3.4.1 Automated search strategies: ICE-GB and ICECUP 3.0 - 131 -- 3.4.2 The retrieval of full inversions on the basis of a parsed corpus - 132 -- 4. Full-verb Inversion in Present-day Writtenand Spoken English - 135 -- 4.1 Full inversion in present-day written English: obligatory and non-obligatory uses - 135.

4.1.1 Obligatory full inversion in fiction and non-fiction - 143 -- 4.1.2 Non-obligatory full inversion in fictionand non-fiction - 152 -- 4.1.2.1 Prepositional phrase, adverb phrase andverb phrase inversions in fiction andnon-fiction: spatial experiential iconic markers and text-structuring devices - 157 -- 4.1.2.2 Noun phrase, adjective phrase, and subordinator inversions in fiction and non-fiction: text-structuring devices - 171 -- 4.1.3 Summary and conclusions - 182 -- 4.2 Full inversion in present-day spoken English: obligatory and non-obligatory uses - 186 -- 4.2.1 Obligatory full inversion in spoken English - 189 -- 4.2.2 Non-obligatory full inversion in spoken English - 198 -- 4.2.2.1 Prepositional phrase, adverb phrase andverb phrase inversions in spoken English: spatial experiential iconic markers and text-structuring devices - 200 -- 4.2.2.2 Noun phrase, adjective phrase, and subordinator inversions in spoken English: text-structuring devices - 203 -- 4.2.3 Summary and conclusions - 205 -- 4.3 Prospects for future research: full inversionsas constructions - 207 -- 5. Summary and Conclusions - 219 -- Appendix I: The corpora - 231 -- Appendix II: Texts selected from the corpora - 239 -- References - 243 -- Index - 259.