Open AccessNEGATIVE INVERSION IN STANDARD ENGLISH
Author(s) -
Lucía Muñoz Martín
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
odisea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-1611
pISSN - 1578-3820
DOI - 10.25115/odisea.v0i20.3632
Subject(s) - grammaticality , inversion (geology) , linguistics , syntax , phenomenon , computer science , natural language processing , psychology , artificial intelligence , grammar , philosophy , epistemology , geology , paleontology , structural basin
This paper takes a descriptive approach to several properties of Negative Inversion (NI) in Standard English found controversial in prescriptive writings, comparing what has been previously written in the literature with real native English speakers’ grammaticality judgements gathered via a questionnaire. These topics include the disagreement on the optionality of subject-auxiliary (subj-aux) inversion, the different approaches to an accurate syntax analysis, whether NI behaves as a Root Phenomenon (RT) or not, and the inaccurate classification of Only Inversion as a subtype of NI.