relative "that" again

Herb Stahlke hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Sat Feb 21 23:17:18 UTC 2009


Paul,

Are you speaking of a shift from conjunction to relative pronoun?
Could you give some examples of usages from Scotland and Ulster that
would demonstrate this?  I'm interested because I've found it hard to
find examples that clearly show such a reanalysis.

Thanks,

Herb

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu> wrote:
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> This reanalysis can appear in dialects and is actually not uncommon
> in Early Modern English letters and letters from places like Scotland
> and Ulster.
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> Yours,
> Paul Johnston
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