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[Ben Zimmer]

Arnold has discussed examples like "Let's see which one of the two of
you are next" (from a "Beverly Hills 90210" episode) here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001846.html
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/02/07/remarks-on-anacoluthon/

And see Geoff Pullum's post:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=866


On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> I believe there are extensive discussions of this somewhere (Ben will
> know where) on Language Log and/or Arnold Zwicky's blog, as well of the
> related "agreement with the closest/nearest" in conjoined structures.
>
> On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
>
>> Also called "attraction".
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:39 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wikipi s.v. synesis, aka constructio ad sensum, constructio kata
>>> synesin, notional agreement, notional concord.  Matter-of-factly
>>> described in any Indo-European handbook.

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