Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature by William Salmon

Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature

William Salmon

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Relying on a wealth of new data, this book argues that long-standing puzzles of Negative Inversion (NI) syntax are not puzzles at all when viewed through the lenses of Gricean pragmatics and Labovian sociolinguistics. Focusing on sentences such as...

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