Term for this type of negation: "Not for X I don't"

English Language & Usage Asked by I love RDJ on November 23, 2020

You got any more pot?

Not for $9 an hour I don’t.

What is this type of negation called? These are the lines from a movie script. I’ve come across this sentence structure quite a few times but I know next to nothing about it. Can anyone enlighten me?

american english grammar negation syntactic analysis

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