Abstract
Abstract ‘Stylistic Inversion’ (SI), or more neutrally, nonclitic (see section 5) Subjectrelated Inversion, is the (unfortunate) term used in the generative literature over the last twenty-five years to refer to the syntactic computation(s) responsible for the postverbal position of the subject DP in French sentences like (la, b): Unlike many other Romance languages, French allows only a limited set of sentence types to take postverbal subjects; thus (2a, b, c) are sharply ungrammatical, unlike their counterparts in Italican or Spanish:
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