"Don't Say Gay" (role of blending)

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Jerry Cohen wrote:
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> We deal here with a syntactic blend, a very frequent feature of everyday speech:

> "That includes (being able to run my home)..."  +" Within that is (the right to run my home).

sounds reasonable to me.  though maybe the second contributor was:

  Within that is included ...

i certainly don't see any pattern or construction here that occurs elsewhere.

arnold

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