Natural-Born Lover : Words

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:33 PM -0400 8/28/04, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>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

%Can I come with? [when it's clear that the addressee is the missing object]

Of course, this isn't specifically "YOU understood", but any object
in the appropriate context (for the appropriate dialect).

larry