Coming together ...

[Amy West]

Having just learned this concept, I need to ask if there is copula
deletion in the past progressive as well?

---Amy West

>Date:    Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:55:48 -0500
>From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: Coming together ...
>
>Absoltively and posilutely. The "is" would appear between "she" and
>"going," if the speaker needed to mark emphasis:
>
>"She say that she _is_ going over her baby daddy mama house!"
>
>-Wilson
>
>On 1/24/07, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
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>>  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 her baby daddy mama house."
>>  >
>>  >-Wilson
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