dialect in novels

Wed Feb 28 23:41:48 UTC 2001

At 10:13 AM 2/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Wouldn't argue. It just seems that one or the other is redundant; like
>"focus in on" or "continued on".
>
>Go Green
>
>Bob

Reminds me of a former TA who considers "co-occur together" (quoted from
Fromkin & Rodman, our old Lx favorite) to be "teeth-clenchingly,
nerve-gratingly redundant."  Needless to say, she's no longer teaching
linguistics.

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