"Inversio" in Latin means " turning" .Linguistically, the term inversion - changing the order of arrangement of words in a phrase, the phrase or sentence.
Inversion is a stylistic figure, its purpose: to enhance the expression of speech, to give it greater brightness, select a specific idea of the author.
Expressive effects inversion of word order on the reader depends on the moment of surprise: the word suddenly appears in the beginning of the sentence (instead of the traditional location at the end of construction), or appears at the end (instead of the usual position at the beginning), drawing attention of the reader thinkingwhich is enclosed therein.Inversion, examples of the use of which are listed below, can act as the role of the main parts of the sentence (subject, predicate) and secondary: determining circumstances additions:
- helped them banal case (Inverted subject).
- I do not think I had a reliable partner (Inverted predicate).
- was taken with surprise proposal (Inverted circumstance).
- Finally, to end this fine drizzling rain (Inverted subject).
- The day was a fine!(Inverted definition).
- With care, he opened the door and looked inside (Inverted circumstance).
Examples inversion of fiction:
I wanted to get a new prisoner (D.Bayron).Suddenly forge greater in the forest he saw (Ludwig Tick). almost always occurs in the environment sverhurbanisticheskoy fantastic city ... (Tolstoy).
Inversion examples its functioning and typology defined linguistic classification. This, of course, is not always easy.Inversion in English is largely determined by its belonging to the analytic class.In contrast to the Russian language, the inversion of the English sentence more fixed.
carry out a small comparative analysis of interrogative sentences.
inversion.The examples in the Russian language:
He lives in Samara? / He lives in Samara? / In Samara he lives?
Laura works for New Aerlainz? / Laura works in the company's New Aerlainz?
you tonight at your club going? / Are you going tonight at your club? / In the club you go tonight?
free word order is largely determined by membership in the Russian language to synthetic.
Another picture in the English sentence, which uses a fixed grammatical inversion of word order.It starts with the design of the interrogative auxiliary verb followed by a typical pattern: subject-predicate-complement (circumstance)
inversion.Examples in English:
Does he live in Samara?
Does Lora work for New Airlines Company?
Are you going to your club tonight?
Regarding the declarative sentence, then you can see a similar location-aktsentonositeley words in English and Russian proposal.
Rarely have I seen such a great architecture!- Seldom have I seen such a splendid architecture!
in Russian and English versions of the word rarely (in the proposal - circumstance) is the inverse.It gives an emotional statement, emphasizing the rarity phenomenon (for the purpose of enhancing the effect of the perception of the word handed down in the beginning of the sentence).
