dropped 's

[Paul Johnston]

Dear Tom,
AAVE zero copula and zero genitive.  It's a well-studied feature of this variety.

Yours,
Paul Johnston
On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

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> In the below passage the 's is not pronounced three times (she's, mother's, she's).  Where that from?
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> "She my mother sister and I used to call her 'Auntie [Ejn.ti < [An.ti]Rainey,' (sounded like "ANE teeRAINY") but now, since she suing me, Ijust call her 'Lorraine'."
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>> Subject: Heard on Judge Mathis
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>> Fifty-ish, black female speaker from Chicago:
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>> "My niece called me up and aksed for me to _co-sign for her a car_."
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>> "I have me a good, government job. I couldn't afford to get up one
>> morning, go out, and find my car _stapled to the sidewalk_ [i.e.,
>> booted]."
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>> Twenty-ish, black female speaker from Chicago:
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>> "She my mother sister and I used to call her 'Auntie [Ejn.ti < [An.ti]
>> Rainey,' (sounded like "ANE teeRAINY") but now, since she suing me, I
>> just call her 'Lorraine'."
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>> Sixty-ish, black male speaker from Cincinnati:
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>> "I'm a recovering addict, your honor. I been clean for six years."
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>> Judge Mathis:
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>> "What were you addicted to?"
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>> Speaker:
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>> "Hehra-wawn [hE.r at wOn], uh, I mean, 'heroin,' your honor."
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>> Given that "heh-rawn' and "hehra-wawn" have long - ten years? - been
>> the currently-hip, BE pronunciations and are used regularly by Judge
>> Mathis himself, it was strange that the speaker felt that he needed to
>> correct himself to the standard pronunciation, especially before a
>> black judge. But, of course,
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>> Youneverknow.
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>> --
>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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