What is inversion

What is inversion

For allocation of the main thought in the narration or verses, there is a reception called by linguists inversion. It represents change of words order in the sentence. In some offers it is possible to make several options of shift, at the same time semantic shades change.

Linguistic inversion (Latin inversio turning; shift) is a change of usual words order in the sentence. The usual order, it when a predicate follows a subject. It is followed by change of intonation that emphasizes semantic expressiveness of the word selected by inversion. The sentence part which is taken out in its beginning falls into the most advantageous state. The same can be told also about the word which is taken out in the end, especially if absolutely at the end of the offer something new is reported. The concept inversion is among stylistic figures. It is connected not only with position of correlative members among themselves, but also with the place of the word in the offer. Quite often inversion is used in verses. Do it mainly to follow any given meter which demands a certain rhythmic arrangement of words in the verse. Verses by M. Lermontov "Aragva light can serve as a striking example it happily reached green coast". There are such offers in which perhaps more than 10 various options of shift of words, for example "Last night I arrived home". And each of them will be stylistically true, only the sense shade will change. Inversion very often occurs in the ordinary speech and in fiction. Sometimes it is emphasized with repetition of the same word twice. Scientific articles and performances, on the contrary, do not abound with inversion. In English inversion - the major syntactic reception. It helps to transform the narrative offer to interrogative. Inversion is studied by stylistics and grammar. The stylistics study it as speech effect. The grammar studies inversion as the violation of the rules necessary for emphasis of the main thought. From the modern characters most often using this syntactic reception on the first place the master Yoda from Star Wars. His speech - the most striking example of linguistic inversion. "When also to you 900 years will be, you will look not so vigorously".

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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