"and +[verb]ing" as subordinator

[Jonathan Lighter]

OK, this is probably just bad copy-editing, but what the heck....

2002 Michael C. C. Adams _Echoes of War_ (Lexington: U. P. of Ky. ) 25 "Even Jefferson Davis, the worn-out and humiliated ex-president of the Confederacy and going to federal prison in 1865, was described by Southerners as King Arthur being spirited to Avalon."

Now if this passage were a representation of Anglo-Hibernian dialect, perhaps the disconnect could be explained as an inadvertent deletion of "he" :

                          *...and he goin' to federal prison...

But it isn't.

JL


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