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<div>At 7:44 PM -0600 7/13/01, Sonja L Launspach wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I'm looking for help finding information
on the personal dative. The only<br>
article that I have been able to locate is Donna Christian's. I know
that<br>
Margaret Mishoe gave a talk once on the topic but I can't find a
published<br>
version of her talk. Are there any other articles out there to look
at?<br>
Also is this feature primarly associated with the Scots-Irish
influence<br>
in general? My impression (rightly or wrongly) is that the personal
dative<br>
is considered a feature of Appalachian English. Is this correct or
does it<br>
occur in other Am English dialects?<br>
<br>
Thanks</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Sonja Launspach</blockquote>
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<div>There was a more recent unpublished paper on the topic--</div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Dannenburg, C. & G.
Webelhuth (1998) The Theoretical Importance of Southern English
Personal Datives. Unpublished ms., U. of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.</font></div>
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<div>--and I've also done some work on it (I'll be talking about
these in England in September as part of a presentation called
"I Just Dropped In to See What Condition Our Conditions Were
In", and possibly in January if I can convince the LSA to accept
my abstract. They are associated with southern and/or
Appalachian speech, so that "I'm gonna git me a new
pickup/shotgun" sounds better than "I'm gonna git me a new
BMW/laser printer", but it's making inroads. I'd be
interested in the history too--of course English used to have
ordinary objects in place of all modern reflexives, but the
"personal datives" are arguably a different beast, since
they involve non-arguments of the predicate.</div>
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<div>larry</div>
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