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[Dennis R. Preston]

Ron,

I believe him; I belive him. I 've already heaped ashes on my head (see my
response to Joan).

dInIs

>Dennis writes, "Of course you can't say "Whenever I was a little boy..." (at
>last not in
>the straightforward reading. ..."
>
>So you don't beleive the Louisiana guy who says he hears, "Whenever I was a
>kid, we went fishing with my grandpa"?

Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
preston at pilot.msu.edu
Office: (517)353-0740
Fax: (517)432-2736