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Publication details [#5894]

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1969. A syntactic argument for negative transportation. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 5 : 140–147.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

negative raising | performative hypothesis | syntactic cycle

Annotation

L. adduces evidence for the existence of a rule of negative transportation, the presence of an abstract performative verb, and the syntactic cycle.

Reviewed by

Cattell, Ray. 1973. Negative transportation and tag questions.