Chapter 3: 'What's a nice NP like you doing in a place like this?' The grammar and use of English inversions

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Chapter 1: Memory and language: Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Linguistic structure and memory
5. Chapter 2: A constructivist epistemology for the language sciences 37
6. Chapter 3: 'What's a nice NP like you doing in a place like this?' The grammar and use of English inversions 75
7. Chapter 4: Cooccurrence and constructions 103
8. Chapter 5: On the reduction of complexity: Some thoughts on the interaction between conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and human memory 143
9. Chapter 6: Making ends meet 163
10. Part 2. Select linguistic notions and memory
11. Chapter 7: Evaluation and cognition: Inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion 187
12. Chapter 8: Causality and subjectivity: The causal connectives of Modern Greek 223
13. Chapter 9: Expression of uncertain goals in communication: The case of multifunctional 'try' 269
14. Chapter 10: What psycholinguistic negation research tells us about the nature of the working-memory representations utilized in language comprehension 313
15. Part 3. Discoursal units and memory
16. Chapter 11: It utterly boggles the mind: Knowledge, common ground and coherence 359
17. Chapter 12: Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling 387
18. Chapter 13 Conversation memory: Intentions, politeness, and the social context 409
19. Chapter 14: Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory 425
20. Index 445