ADS-L Digest - 7 Jun 2005 to 8 Jun 2005 (#2005-160)

[Beth Simon]

Positive anymore is very much on the move, west through the Rockies and
on to the coast.

beth

beth lee simon, ph.d.
associate professor, linguistics and english
indiana university purdue university
fort wayne, in 46805-1499
u.s.
voice (011) 260 481 6761; fax (011) 260 481 6985
email simon at ipfw.edu


>>> flanigan at OHIOU.EDU 6/9/2005 2:47 PM >>>
At 01:05 PM 6/9/2005, you wrote:
>Please remember that, at least for phonology, it won't do to put
>Carbondale together with metropolitan St. Louis, where the Northern
>Cities Shift is (strangely) present. (See Jill Goodheart's 2004 MSU
>Linguistics MA thesis "I'm no Hoosier.")
>
>The NCS is not only not in Carbondale (except among the Chicago area
>students), it ain't going there either.
>
>Positive anymore is innovative rather than well established in
>strongly South Midland areas. Hanging around Carbondale would not
>have provided sufficient input for it to take in my opinion.
>
>dInIs

This is true in southern Ohio too (and in southern Indiana, I'm sure).
Our
North Midland (central Ohio in this case) students and faculty have
positive 'anymore', but it's just starting to come in in South
Midlanders.  On the other hand, 'needs/wants/likes' + past participle
is
more generally Midland, though it appears to have originated in the
South
Midland/Appalachian Scotch-Irish population.

Beverly Olson Flanigan
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Ohio University
Athens, OH  45701
1-740-593-4568