extraposition from "it" in object position

[Tom Zurinskas]

Sorry.  "Hope it" is a typo.  Delete "it."

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:12:29 -0500
> From: hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: extraposition from "it" in object position
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Herb Stahlke
> Subject: extraposition from "it" in object position
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> In a post today, Tom Zurinskas wrote the following:
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> I would hope it that reasonable minds would work toward a common
> English so that there is minimal misinterpretation.
>
> This is the first instance I've encountered of extraposition from "it"
> in object position with the verb "hope" (to go back to Rosenbaum's
> analysis). A lot of people don't like sentences like this at all,
> whatever the verb, but I find myself doing it with "like," "hate,"
> "expect," "doubt," and a few other verbs, but not with "hope." Tom,
> was this a case of incomplete retyping or does this construction feel
> natural?
>
> Herb
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