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Dictionary of language and linguistics 594invited inferenceA subtype of conversational implicature described by M.Geis and A.M.Zwicky. Thepromise If you mow my lawn, I’ll give you five dollars, generally speaking, ‘invites’ theunexpressed inference If you don’t mow my lawn, I won’t give you five dollars. Invitedinferences, which have a pragmatic basis, must be distinguished from logical conclusions.ReferencesZwicky, A.M. and M.Geis. 1971. On invited inferences. LingI 2. 561–6.implication, maxims of conversation, presuppositioniota operatoroperatoriotacism [Grk=name for the Greek letter‹ι›]Term taken from Greek phonetics for the raising of Ancient Greek ēta [e:] to [i:] or thecollapsing of Ancient Greek [ei, oi, y] with iōta [i].IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)phonetic transcriptionIranianBranch of Indo-Iranian and thus of Indo-European, composed today of about fortylanguages with over 80 million speakers; main languages are Persian (Farsī), Pashto,Kurdish, Belochi (esp. in Pakistan), and Ossete in the Caucasus. The oldest knownlanguages are Avestan, the language of the Avesta, a Zoroastrian collection of texts