Timeline for "Not... neither" or "not... nor"
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| Nov 16, 2016 at 0:01 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | But neither is a conjunction. It signals independence or equal weight, unlike nor, which suggests dependency when on it's own. Legalese tends to lean heavily towards the idea of making each statement either strictly independent or clearly dependent. Neither helps with the former, but I'm not sure nor is sufficient to manage the later. "Neither does body A give [...] , nor does body B give [...]" would seem like the normal approach to this. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 23:35 | comment | added | Tyler Kropp | Hmm good point. Honestly, this is way above my head. You're probably right. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 23:24 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | You'll note that the Wikipedia article clearly states that negative inversion occurs with certain fronted negative elements (specifically certain adjuncts and certain predicate arguments); coordinators are not fronted, and they are conspicuously absent from that page. And dictionaries are notoriously unreliable sources when classifying words. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 23:12 | comment | added | Tyler Kropp | merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nor claims that nor is only a conjunction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_inversion shows that a negative force can alter the word order and, in some cases, omit conjunctions like if. A Google definition for 'nor' provides the following example: 2. used to introduce a further negative statement. "the struggle did not end, nor was it any less diminished" | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 22:59 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Do you have something to substantiate the claim that nor is a conjunction here? I can think of no good argument that it should be, whereas there are definitely arguments that it is an adverb (viz., conjunctions do not normally cause subject–auxiliary inversion, whereas many adverbs, especially negating ones, do). I would consider both sentences incorrectly punctuated with a comma: both require a semicolon or an actual conjunction. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 16:40 | history | edited | Helmar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 21:01 | history | answered | Tyler Kropp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |