The article deals with some internal theoretical controversies in the concept and the use of the term inversion in English syntax as used in some descriptive and most pedagogical grammars of Modern English. The analysis focuses mainly on the formation of interrogative and emphatic negative structures in English by applying some basic concepts of generative grammar. The aim of the analysis is to explain the transposition of the subject and the verbal predicate by following the Occam Razor' s principle of scientific description requiring the employment of a minimal number of principles and technicalities in the course of analysis which results in higher explanatory adequacy. This aim is achieved through the application of the terms operator and operator fronting in the cases of both obligatory and reversive inversion. The obligatory visualization of the operator in a series of syntactic structures is also discussed and a general rule is formulated.

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重新思考英语语法中的反转

本文讨论了有关概念的一些内部理论争议，以及在现代语法的一些描述性和大多数教学语法中使用的术语“英语语法中的倒置”的使用。通过应用生成语法的一些基本概念，分析主要集中在英语疑问句和强调否定结构的形成上。分析的目的是通过遵循Occam Razor的科学描述原则来解释主语和谓语的移位，该原则要求在分析过程中使用最少的原理和技术，从而获得更高的解释充分性。通过在强制性和反向性反转的情况下都使用术语“运算符”和“运算符前沿”来实现此目的。