query on "what all"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 7:18 AM, Larry Horn wrote:

> For a student working on the construction, does anyone know of papers
> dealing with "what all" from a syntactic and/or variationist (or any
> other) perspective?  I checked our ads-l files and located a
> discussion from last August...

i don't know of anything in the literature.  unfortunately, it's hard
to search for.

let us hear what your student finds (out).

arnold

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