Is there such a phenomenon as "undercorrection/hypocorrection?

Gordon, Matthew J. GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU
Thu Mar 17 03:42:21 UTC 2005


Yeah but that's copula deletion (who < who's) not possessive deletion. What I haven't heard is "The baby who daddy that is called me yesterday" etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Wilson Gray
Sent: Wed 3/16/2005 9:38 PM
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Subject:      Re: Is there such a phenomenon as "undercorrection/hypocorrection?
 
On the "Maury" show, you'll hear formations like "Who yo baby daddy,
bitch?!" a zillion times.



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