CHAPTER 1 — Pragmatic functions and language structures

1. Modes and syntax

1.1 Assertions

1.2 The passive voice

1.3 Imperatives

1.4 Exclamations

1.5 Interrogative forms

1.6 Word order

1.7 Thematic fronting

2. Possible applications

2.1 Cleft and pseudo-cleft sentences

2.2 Premodification

3. Differences in word-order

3.1 SVOC Patterns

3.2 Verbs of perception

3.3 Double transitive verbs

3.4 Causative verbs

3.5 Inversions with negatives

3.6 Exclamations

3.7 Inversions in non-finite clauses

3.8 The position of adverbs

4. Other cases of inversion

4.1 Embedding and recursiveness

5. Between grammar and semantics: a contrastive analysis

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