Youse/You-uns possessive
Dennis R. Preston
preston at MSU.EDU
Thu Aug 18 15:35:57 UTC 2005
Sorry; I thought my message made it clear that I have no evidence
whatsoever of /y^zIz/ or /yu^nzIz/. The broad phonetic forms I gave
were used as possessives.
dInIs
>Are they /y^zIz/ or /y^z/?
>
>--- "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
>
>> I have recordings of both "youse" (/y^z/) and
>> "you-uns" (y^nz) as
>> possessives. I have no evidence of the "full forms"
>> (/yus/ or
>> /yu^nz/) as possessives, but I wouldn't expect it
>> since the possessed
>> N is likely to have stress, and I appear to have no
>> examples where
>> contrastive stress is placed on 'youse' or
>> 'you-uns.'
>>
>> dInIs
>>
>> >Any native speakers out there willing to confirm or
>> >deny that youse or you-uns can be used in the
>> >possessive.
>> >
>> >I grew up around youse speakers, but don't trust my
>> >judgements. To me, youse is not possible as a
>> >possessive:
>> >
>> >1. We went over to youse'/youse's house.
>> >
>> >Ed
>> >
>> >watchmesleep.blogspot.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Dennis R. Preston
>> University Distinguished Professor
>> Department of English
>> Morrill Hall 15-C
>> Michigan State University
>> East Lansing, MI 48824-1036 USA
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>>
>
>watchmesleep.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>____________________________________________________
>Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page
>http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
--
Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
Morrill Hall 15-C
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1036 USA
Office: (517) 453-4736
Fax: (517) 453-3755
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