Speaker’s Involvement in Press Reportage: The Case of Nonlexicalised and Lexicalised Locative Inversion

This article offers a corpus-based analysis of locative inversion in journalistic writing. The study focuses on the construction press reportage dealing with cultural, sports, financial, political and spot news Present-Day English. On basis data retrieved from six different corpora, it is argued that distribution these texts related to degree writer’s involvement each text style. Results show more involved is, inversions may be expected. further demonstrates itself serves as discourse marker through which presence writer encoded texts.