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Publication details [#36723]

Dry, Helen Aristar. 1990. Language change and "naturalization" in free indirect speech. Journal of Literary Semantics 19 (3) : 135–149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indirect speech | inference | language change

Language as a subject

English, Modern

Place, Publisher

Julius Groos Verlag

ISBN

0341-7638

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JLSE/html

Annotation

This article identifies three early nineteenth-century English constructions that invite naturalizing pragmatic inferences based on modern English usage.