Information processing

1. FRONTING
Fronting is the term we apply to a sentence transformation which consist on moving into initial position an item
which is otherwise unusual there.
Theyre maybe several reasons for fronting, it could be to echo thematically what has been contextually given:
AYou should tale swimming for relaxation, Relaxation fronting element you call it.
Or it may be the element contextually most demanded.
1. Wilson his name is.
2. An utter food she made me feel. (Me hizo sentir muy idiota).
3. Really good meals they said at the hotel.
Its as if the semantic element is the first thing that strikes the speaker and the rest is added as an afterthought.
(Something you think after saying) The above sound distinctly in form, but fronting is a no way confined to
colloquial speech.
1. Its very common both in special and conventional written mention.
2. That much the jury had thoroughly minusiosamente appreciated.
Most of these problems a computer could take in its stride. (There is not complication/lit.paso,zancada).
3.
4. This latter ultimo/este topic we have examined in chapter 3 and need not reconsider.
5. Through this list maybe added ten further items out importance.
It is not common -ing verbs fronted in similar information processing circumstances.
My sister Jane was sitting at her desk in deep concentration.
-Sitting at her desk in deep concentration was my sister Jane.
Fronting items are frequently entire sentences elements. Exceptionally a part of a clause clasula/preposicin element
maybe fronted.
In the following case, a prepositional phrase equivalent in meaning to a post modifier of the subject complement
acts as theme,
Of all early examples of science-fiction, the fantastic stories of Julio Verne are the most remarkable of all
the
Direct speech sentences seem to provide an example of the constructions in which thematic fronting of a direct
object is exceptionally easy.
I said That is a pity/That is a pity I said.
A more strategy type of fronting is found in a very formal language including same journalists writing. Its
frequently employed to pair a parallelism between two parts of neighbouring clauses.
This fronted part may be gradually wide range of units.
C. Adverbials
1. Defiantly they have spoken but submissively they will accept my terms. Desafiantes han hablado pero sumisos aceptarn.
2. He might agree under pressure: willingly he never would. Y nunca lo har por voluntad propia.
3. In London I was born and in London I should die.
D. Predications
They have promised to finish the work and finish it they will. Y por narices que lo harn.
With predications and adverbials (anything that Works as adverbs: phrases) in front position, we often find
subject verb inversion if the subject is other than a personal pronoun. For example:
1. The desperate/despereit/ mother jumped into the sea.
-Into the sea jumped the desperate mother.

-Into the sea she jumped. ( No inversion because she is a pronoun).

In examples like the following common in journalism the fronting of the predication seems largely determined by
the desire to give and focus to the subject, at the same time using , as is normal, the early part of the sentence to
set the scene.
1. A quite elderly woman was addressing (dirigirse ) the demonstration.
-Addressing the demonstration was a quite elderly woman.
2. To entirely innocent tourists were shot by nationalist guerrillas.
-Shot by nationalist guerrillas were to entire innocent tourist. (We invent to give sense).

2. INVERSION
The fronting of an element is often associated with inversion. Two types may be distinguish, consisting in the
reversal(inversion) of subject and verb and the reversals of subject and the auxiliary verb.

Subject verb inversion

The clause patterns SSubject VVerbC Complement-atrib. and SVA Adverbials have their obligatory third element in large measure
because the verb is commonly lacking in communicative dynamism . Consider the following examples:
1.

2.
3.

AVC Her oval face was an especially (If we pronounce the e.especialmente/ without e particularmente) remarkable.
SVC The sound of the vowel become faint. (Weaker-tenue)
AVA His beloved body lies in a distant grave.

If the sentences didnt have the Complement or the Adverbial they would probably be considered unacceptable.
Where the information processing mix it desirable to front the third element (concerned), the result would tend to
be odd or misleading if normal order were preserved with the SV as it would suggest that four be placed in
appropriately on the verb. Consider the following sentences:
1. CVS Especially remarkable her horrible face was.
2. SVC Faint the sound of the vowel became.
3. ASV In a distant grave his beloved body lies.
This would be normally be dismiss as merely bad style as it is unlikely that one should wish to highlight this verbs
giving their limited weight.
Subject
Verb
Object
considers
the exercise
John
left
the window
John
considers
to do the exercises /that
John
*** John considers it easy to do the exercise. (Anticipate it)

SUBJUNTIVE
We use the base form of the verb.
Example
1.
2.

To do /do
To be/ be
*If I was /were (both are correct but we use were).

NEGATIVE: NOT + BASE FORM

Complement
easy
opened
easy*** Not correct

1.
2.
3.

I demand that he be there. (Exijo que est all).

I demand that he come inmediately (No s-third person) /Exijo que venga inmediatamente.
I demand that he not come.

1.2 Direct object or prepositional complement

T0. Eternal true/ If you boil water, it vaporizes.
T1. If you see him, he will tell you.
T2. If you saw him, he would tell you.

Mix conditional T2 y T3. /Type of variation-inversion.

T3. If you had seen him, he would have told you.

T1. If you see him, he will tell you

-If you should see him,
-Should you see him -We use inversion in a conditional to empathize. It expresses doubt.
T2. If you were to see him Si por casualidad lo vieras
-Were you to see him
T1y T2.We need to introduce an auxiliary.
T3. Had you see him. -Its not necessary an auxiliary.
T2. Y T3. Ann and Jhn Smith are having a raw because she borrow his tennis racket and lost it, They would
be having a raw if she had not borrowed his tennis racket. (She lost in the past- Theyre arguing- present). No
estaran discutiendo si ella no hubiera perdido la raqueta.

Jane is a very reliable journalist that is why she was promoted. Jane would not have been promoted if she
wasnt a very reliable journalist.
*Present- not have / past -have