Coming together ...

[Wilson Gray]

Absoltively and posilutely. The "is" would appear between "she" and
"going," if the speaker needed to mark emphasis:

"She say that she _is_ going over her baby daddy mama house!"

-Wilson

On 1/24/07, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
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> Woo hoo! Does this also feature an instance of that "copula deletion"
> that I've just learned about?
>
> ---Amy West
>
> >Date:    Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:39:31 -0500
> >From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject: Coming together ...
> >
> >OTOH, if anyone wanted to claim that the -'s possessive, the -'s
> >reduction of _is_, and the third-person singular -s are no longer
> >extant in BE, I would not gainsay him:
> >
> >"She say that she going over her baby daddy mama house."
> >
> >-Wilson
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