that costly "missing g"

[Mark Mandel]

Which goes against the cooccurrence pattern that Larry noted –

> Checking our page on the a-prefixing phenomenon,
> http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/prefixing, I notice that all the
> examples from a variety of sources are of the a-verbin', not a-verbing,
> form.
>
– but has the immediately following /g/, in song no less, to discount it.

 Mark

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> > Six Swans A-Swimming
>
> Not to mention
>
> "A frog he would _a-wooing_ go"
>

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