Deictic 'go'

[Joel S. Berson]

This reminds me of the "get" vs. "come" question.  Does "go" get used
when there is a focus on an activity, a process of something going
somewhere, and "is" is preferentially used when the focus is on existence?

Here goes nuthin' -- the unnamed activity may get nowhere.
Here go your permission slip -- I'm giving it to you.

hw gray's examples seem similar.

Joel


At 11/6/2013 01:21 AM, Benjamin Torbert wrote:
>I think several of these examples are distinct from the ones I hear in
>AAE.  They don't accurately paraphrase with a *be  *verb.
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>On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:19 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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