Natural-Born Lover : Words

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Sun Aug 29 03:33:09 UTC 2004


Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:

        >>>
I've now listened and relistened to the words of Fats Domino's "
Natural-Born Lover" and I hear only:

"I done got over at last"

and not

"I done got over you"

or any other possible reading.
        <<<

Then there was some back-and-forth about a hypothetical implied
second-person-singular object.

I understood it, but I share Wilson's desire for support for the hypothesis.
This seems to me to be very, very far from the implicit 2s. SUBJECT of an
imperative. Are there any known such cases?

-- Mark A. Mandel



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