Research over "over"

[Lynne Murphy]

You should check Claudia Brugman's Berkeley dissertation (from the 80s, can't remember the
year).  It's called _The Story of Over_.  I'm sure she's published articles on it as well.

Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

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> From:         Mai Kuha <mkuha at ALTAVISTA.COM>
> Date:         Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:55:33 -0800
> Subject:      Research over "over"
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> Reply-To:     American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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> Is anyone aware of research on the use of "over" in contexts such as the following?
> "The exam is over chapters 3 and 4."
> "My presentation is over gender differences."
> "What are you doing your paper over?"
>
> The usage seems to be the norm among undergraduates here in Muncie. A bit of anecdotal
> evidence: a student began a class presentation by announcing his topic: "Julie and me's
> gonna do it over language use in three different newspapers." A few people in the class
> laughed a little, and he said: "OK, you caught it too." Afterwards I asked him what he
> thought they were chuckling about, and he explained that he'd said "Julie and me",
> despite having planned not to.
>
> -Mai
>
> Mai Kuha
> Department of English
> Ball State University
> mkuha at altavista.com OR mkuha at bsuvc.bsu.edu
>
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