"so Auxn't NP" (was: Re: "until" vs "before" or "to")

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 21 21:10:25 UTC 2007


Any theory of the origin of this construction? I wonder if it could
originally have come from exchanges like

 "I wish the sun would come out."
 "Don't we all?" [without rising contour]

m a m

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