Coming together ...
Amy West
medievalist at W-STS.COM
Thu Jan 25 01:53:13 UTC 2007
Woo hoo! Does this also feature an instance of that "copula deletion"
that I've just learned about?
---Amy West
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:39:31 -0500
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Coming together ...
>
>OTOH, if anyone wanted to claim that the -'s possessive, the -'s
>reduction of _is_, and the third-person singular -s are no longer
>extant in BE, I would not gainsay him:
>
>"She say that she going over to her baby daddy mama house."
>
>-Wilson
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