VS in dialog

[Jim Parish]

Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
> the "reversed-style" version is known as Quotative Inversion in the
> syntactic literature.  you can google up a pile of references.
> including some discussion of QI in the New Yorker, in early Language
> Log postings (#17, 28, 37).

Thanks; the cited material, I think, pretty well resolves my friend's
questions.

Jim Parish

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