dialect in novels

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Mar 1 13:08:03 UTC 2001


At 5:42 PM -0500 3/1/01, Tony Glaser wrote:
>  (are there other examples where "off on" occurs,
>other then "he gets off on annoying people" etc.?)
>
Oh, and another one for those who follow basketball:  Shaq pushed off
on Olajuwon..  (Or, if you prefer football, Randy Moss pushed off on
the cornerback.)  Again, "off on" isn't a constituent.

larry



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