Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature : : A Study Across Three Texas Ethnolects / / William Salmon.
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 "Can't nobody lift that rock" in Afri...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIV, 218 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations and symbols
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Negative inversion in Texas, in three varieties of English
- Chapter 2 Negative inversion and its contents
- Chapter 3 Negative inversion, existential sentences, and definite subjects
- Chapter 4 Negative inversion and its discontents
- Chapter 5 Negative inversion and emphatic meanings
- Chapter 6 Negative inversion is a formal idiom
- Conclusion
- References
- Index