Example of apparent Principle A violation

Rudolph C Troike rtroike at U.ARIZONA.EDU
Fri Jun 7 07:36:10 UTC 2002


The "Polite Reflexive" seems to be emerging as standard in British English
(or are the Welsh just ahead of the curve?). Two examples in one
paragraph! What say you, Lynne?

        Rudy


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:42:06 -0700
>From: "Martin Padget" <mtp at aber.ac.uk>

>The conference notice below hopefully will be of interest to yourself and
>colleagues.  Information about the conference is being circulated on
>various list servers, but I am sending an email directly to yourself in
>the hope that the message will reach you and your colleagues in American
>literature/Ameridan Studies directly.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Martin Padget
>
>
>British Association for American Studies, Annual Conference, 2003
>University of Wales, Aberystwyth
>April 11-14, 2003



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