double bind

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>> Does anyone see what's the tactic is?

A) "Does anyone know what's the tactic?" X B) "Does anyone know what
the tactic is?"

But, fifty years ago, didn't Labov write that strings like A were a
peculiarity of BE? If that was so, then the structure has taken United
States English in general by storm, from that humble beginning.

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