Електронний багатомовний

термінологічний словник

Electronic Multilingual Terminological Dictionary


Linguistics

Inversion

Inversion is the changing of the normally expected order of words. Inversion of word order is common in poetry and allows a poet to save the rhyme scheme or the metre of a verse line, or to emphasise certain words. Common forms of inversion are the placing of an adjective after its noun, a subject after the verb, and an adverb before its verb [Baldick, 129].
The term inversion is used to refer to the process or result of syntactic change. One of the major ways of forming questions in the English language is inverting the order of subject and predicate [Crystal, 254].
Inversion is the turning of an argument opposed to an opponent in rhetoric. In grammar, inversion is the change of the normal word order of a sentence [Cuddon, 370].
Inversion happens when we invert the usual word order of a structure. Question word order is the most frequent type of inversion [4].

Sources:

⠀ 1. Chris Baldick. (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press

⠀ 2. David Crystal. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th Edition. New-Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

⠀ 3. Cuddon J. A. (2013). A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

⠀ 4. Retrieved from: Cambridge Online Dictionary [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ru/%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0/%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%

Part of speech Noun
Countable/uncountable uncountable
Type abstract
Gender neutral
Case nominative