Kim, Jae-Min. 2000. An Analysis of English Inversion: A Discourse Perspective. Linguistics 8-2, 43-58. This paper presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion. To remedy the short-comings of Old/New information-packaging explanation for inversion, Birner (1994) suggests the notion of familiarity. I, however, have argued that though Birner`s familiarity model explains inversion well, some more functional principles are needed to explain it appropriately. Here, I have suggested three additional principles that trigger inversion: (i) Topic continuity principle, (ii) Focus/Topicality principle, and (iii) Subjectivity principle. I think they co-work to make inversion occur in discourse context. (Chonbuk National University)