dialect in novels

[Salikoko Mufwene]

At 09:58 AM 2/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>My sense of "have got" is that the "got" is usually superfluous.
>
>Bob

Any more superfluous than in "I've got the same book" (as a variant of "I
have the same book")?

Sali.

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