that costly "missing g"

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 31, 2012, at 1:55 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> 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

Regressive assimilation!

LH
>
> 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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