Stylistic devices based on changes in traditional word order (emphatic inversion, detachment)

_{W о}_{r d-o r d e r is a crucial syntactical problem in many languages. In English it has peculiarities which have been caused by the concrete and specific way the language has developed.}

_{This predominance of S—P—О}_{word-order makes conspicuous any change in the structure of the sentence and inevitably calls forth a modification in the intonation design.}

_{Stylistic inversion}_{does riot change the structural meaning, that is, the change in the position of members of the sentence does not indicate structural meaning but has some superstructural function. Stylistic inversion aims at attaching logiс}_{a1 stress or additional emotional colouring to the surface meaning of the utterance. Intonation pattern is the inevitable Stylistic inversion.}

_{Stylistic inversion in Modern English should not be regarded as a violation of the norms of standard English. It is only the practical realization of what is potential in the language itself.}

_{The following patterns of stylistic inversion are most frequently met in both English prose and English poetry.}

_{1. The object is placed at the beginning of the sentence.}

_{2. The attribute is placed after the word it modifies.}

_{3. a}_{) The predicative is placed before the subject.}

_{b) the predicative stands before the link-verb and both are placed before the subject.}

_{4. The adverbial modifier is placed at the beginning of the sentence.}

_{5. Both modifier and predicate stand before the subject.}

_{Inverted word-order, or inversion, is one of the forms of what are known as emphatic constructions.}

_{Detached Construction}

_{Sometimes one of the secondary parts of a sentence by some specific consideration of the writer is placed so that it seems formally independent of the word it logically refers to. Such parts of structures are called detached.}

_{Detached construction as a stylistic device is a typification of the syntactical peculiarities of colloquial language.}

_{A variant of detached construction is parenthesis,}

_{Parenthesis is a qualifying, explanatory or appositive word, phrase, clause, sentence, or other sequence which interrupts syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, brackets or dashes.}

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