Inversion in modern written English: syntactic complexity, information status and the creative writer

Computational Methods for Corpus Annotation and Analysis

“…In first language research, for example, researchers have examined the developmental trends of child syntactic acquisition (e.g., Ramer 1977), the role of syntactic complexity in treating syntactic deficits in agrammatical aphasia (e.g., Melnick and Conture 2000;Thompson and Shapiro 2007), the relationship between syntactic complexity in early life to symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in old age (e.g., Kemper et al 2001;, and the effectiveness of syntactic complexity as a predictor of adolescent writing quality (e.g., Beers and Nagy 2009). For comprehensive reviews of the syntactic complexity measures commonly used in first language development research, see Cheung and Kemper (1992) and Kreyer (2006); for a detailed review of those commonly used in second language development research, see Wolfe-Quintero et al (1998). A large number of syntactic complexity measures have been proposed in the first and second language development literature.…”

Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing

“…clauses, sentences, and T-units, as defined in Section 3.2), amount of embedding or subordination, amount of coordination, range of surface syntactic structures, and degree of sophistication of particular syntactic structures (Ortega 2003). Notably, the specific set of measures proposed for second language development research differs from the set of measures widely adopted in first language development studies (for an overview of these measures, see, e.g., Cheung &Kemper 1992 andKreyer 2006), although some overlap exists. While measures that gauge length of production units are common in both sets, many first language syntactic complexity measures rank syntactic structures based on patterns of syntactic development or frequency of use, e.g.…”

Збороредот Во Простата Реченица: Инверзија На Субјектот И Предикатот

“…На средбата дошле и Анѓел Поп Ѓорчев, закупец на хотелот "Југословенска круна", и Вујица Мојсиловиќ, застапник на филијалата на Сараевската пиварница во Скопје. (fashionel.mk/intervjua) Субјектната инверзија може да послужи и за менување на претходната тема (Kreyer 2004) преку воведување нов учесник за кој се раскажува во пократка епизода. На тој начин се постигнува поврзување на релативно нова…”