_bees_

[Johanna Rubba]

I have finally sorted out a problem that was preventing me from posting
to FUNKNET. I wanted to join the ranks of those who find 'are'
grammatical and 'do' ungrammatical in the 'if you ___' slot. I can,
however, like totally see how someone would find 'do' grammatical.

And since when does a verb (viz., 'be') have to be in either one category
or another? One of the major points of cognitivist linguistics is that
category membership is not .. well, categorical!

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Johanna Rubba   Assistant Professor, Linguistics              ~
English Department, California Polytechnic State University   ~
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407                                     ~
Tel. (805)-756-2184  E-mail: jrubba at oboe.aix.calpoly.edu      ~
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