Antedatings of rule regarding coordination and quotation?

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

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> Subject:      Antedatings of rule regarding coordination and
> quotation?
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> I've been trying to find the origin of a particular prescriptive rule
> involving coordinated verb phrases when the first VP is headed by a
> verb of
> speech or thought, and the quoted material is fronted. The only
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> source for this rule that I've found is from Bill Walsh in 2000 ...

i don't have an earlier source, but i've posted about the construction
here:
   http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/x-y-said-and-vp/

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