The role of inversion and PP-fronting in relating discourse elements
Mark Vincent LaPolla · 1986
This paper will explore and discuss the less obvious ways syntactic structure is used to convey information and how this information could be used by a natural language database system as a heuristic to organize and search a discourse space.The primary concern of this paper will be to present a general theory of processing which capitalizes on the information provided by such non-SVO word orders as inversion, (wh) clefting and prepositional phrase (PP)fronting.