"all as"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

elizabeth traugott has unearthed one example of "all as" 'all that',
in the EEBO (Early English Books Online) section of the Chadwyck LION
electronic data base:

"I have nothing to say against this  paraphrase but that it may be
the true sense of the Words
for all as I know to the contrary at present" (1682 Author Honest
gent. and a true lover of all such.
Title: Concavum cappo-cloacorum)

and she's found

a half-page in Tanja Herrmann, Relative clauses in dialects of
English", in Bernd Kortmann, Tanja Hermann, et al. A Comparative
Grammar of British English Dialects, Mouton de Gruyter, p. 65.
Hermann says: "In the Central Southwest...the relative particle ''as'
has retracted from the rel. marker system to semantically and
syntactically related niches and exits the dialect via
topicalization structures, such as it-clefts and all-pseudo-clefts".
Some exs. are given.

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