SEPARATION OF SYNTACTICALLY CONNECTED SENTENCE UNITS

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 979.

INVERSION

Of some parts of the sentence

EM based on the violation of the traditional word-order and isolation

It's common knowledge that the English language is characterized by its strict word-order. Any violation of this order is called inversion. It may be of two kinds:

1. Inversion which results in the change of the grammatical meaning of the whole construction is called grammatical inversion. Grammatical inversion in exclamatory and interrogative sentences alters only the meaning of the syntactical structure of the sentence.

2. The violation of the traditional word-order which does not alter the grammatical meaning of the sentence and only gives it an additional emotional and emphatic colouring is called stylistic inversion.

e.g. Dolly she called Dollyheart, but Verena she called That One (T. Capote. The Grass Harp).

Inversion may be of two types:

1. Complete, when it refers to the main parts of the sentence.

e.g. From behind me came Andrew's voice. (S. Chaplin. The Thin Seam).

2. Partial, when it refers to the other parts of the sentence.

e.g. To his orderly he was cold and just and indifferent. (L. Durell. The Little Affair in Paris.).

Separation is a syntagmatic phenomenon caused by communicative and semantic reasons. Thus, in a split noun phrase the attributive adjunct is placed at a distance from a word it modifies,

e.g. He had never seen the truth before, about anything. (R. Warren)

Here the emphasis of the adjunct "about anything" is observed, being caused by the communicative factors.

DETACHMENT – is an isolation of some parts of the sentence.

e.g. I hardly dare to think what it must have been for Art, strapped, helpless and immobile. (S. Chaplin. The Thin Seam.).

Detachment is to be regarded as a special kind of inversion when some parts of the sentence are syntactically separated from other members of the sentence with which they are grammatically and logically connected.

e.g. And Michael drew in his breath. A sound of singing came down the water to him, trailing, distant, high and sweet. (J. Galsworthy. The White Monkey).

EM based on the violation of the traditional word-order and isolation of some parts of the sentence are used in the literary language to produce different stylistic effects:

1. to give emotional or emphatic colouring to certain elements;

2. to make the isolated words more independent and give them greater prominence.