Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature: A Study Across Three Texas Ethnolects

by 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 "Can't nobody lift that rock" in African American, Anglo, and Chicano Englishes in Texas, the book provides tidy solutions to problems such as: the NI's relationship to its non-inverted counterpart, its...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1501519271

ISBN13:9781501519277

Release Date:June 2020

Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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