"of" for "have" in "would have" constructions

[Joanne M. Despres]

Would you call these student uses standard or nonstandard?   The
M-W Collegiate entry labels the word as nonstandard, which
basically means that it wouldn't appear without some kind of
stigma in professionally-edited prose.  That is not meant to imply
that it couldn't appear in nonstandard writing unselfconsciously,
though.

Joanne Despres
Merriam-Websteer

On 2 Jan 2006, at 14:53, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> I'd modify that to "undergraduate level." I've seen plenty of exx.
>
>   JL
>
> "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: "of" for "have" in "would have" constructions
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> MW is clearly wrong. It shows up in a great deal of writing, even at
> the college level.
>
> dInIs
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>
> >It strikes me as one of those differences between the written and
> >spoken language. I think the MW entry points out that it shows up in
> >writing when dialect and dialogue are being shown. The only
> >interesting thing about my example was that it wasn't in either of
> >those contexts.
> >
> >Misanalysis. Reanalysis. Whatever you call it. I educate myself by
> >reading this list since my one and only formal linguistics class was
> >a million, billion years ago. Hence my query as to the underlying
> >process.
> >
> >---Amy West
> >
> >>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:10:40 -0500
> >>From: "Dennis R. Preston"
>
> >>Subject: Re: "of" for "have" in "would have" constructions
> >>
> >>Funny. I'd call it a stage in the history of the language.
> >>
> >>dInIs
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