Deictic 'go'

[Benjamin Torbert]

Interestingly, all three of those examples have 3-sing -s on them.


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> This doesn't strike me as being particular to AAVE; here are some webcites:
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> Here goes your love letter:
> http://tesfa-love-tesfa.blogspot.com/2012/04/detroit-here-goes-your-love-letter.html
> Here goes your generic animal crossing-esque speech:
> http://alliscrossing.com/forum/topic.aspx?pid=1730350
> Here goes your prescription: http://shiitslegit.tumblr.com/
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> I don't think I use this myself, but it doesn't strike me as particularly
> odd (until it's pointed out). I don't see this meaning in Wiktionary or the
> OED.
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> Benjamin Barrett
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> On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Benjamin Torbert <btorbert at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > I have [at least] two grad students who teach in majority (read, 100%)
> AfAm
> > classrooms in StL, and they bring up things about AA(V)E, and they're
> > seldom able to stump me, but this time, I wasn't able to give a complete
> > answer.  They were asking me about what is apparently known as deictic
> *go*.
> >
> > 1) There go your pencil.
> > 2) Here go your permission slip.
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> > These more or less paraphrase in mainstream American English (ugh, the
> > label, I know) with a form of *be, *namely *is, *probably contracted most
> > likely.
> >
> > Is there any scholarly work on this feature, beyond a basic description
> of
> > the feature?  I was vaguely aware of it, but I don't remember anyone
> > talking about it in six years of gradskool, when we were talking about
> AAE
> > more or less nonstop.  The only thing I could find was a 1975 article
> > (Clark/Garnica), and it seems to address different issues.
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