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

[Beverly Flanigan]

Yes, I noted here a couple of times that I heard it even in my 70-plus aunt
and uncle in LA and San Diego (transplants from Minnesota, where AFAIK it
isn't used yet).

Beverly

At 03:52 PM 6/9/2005, you wrote:
>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