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232 pages • missing pub info (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781501519277
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
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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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232 pages • missing pub info (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781501519277
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
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...