Deictic 'go'

[Benjamin Barrett]

That was part of my search parameter :) BB

On Nov 5, 2013, at 9:00 PM, Benjamin Torbert <btorbert at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> Interestingly, all three of those examples have 3-sing -s on them.
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> 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
>> Seattle, WA
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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*.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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