Whenever vs. when

[Benjamin Torbert]

Whenever I moved to Missouri, I started using positive 'anymore.'  Anymore,
I use punctual 'whenever' too.

Actually, only that first sentence is true.

BT


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Gordon, Matthew J. <GordonMJ at missouri.edu>wrote:

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> This sounds like what's known as punctual 'whenever'. It's common here in
> Missouri. Michael Montgomery has an article with John Kirk on this with the
> excellent title "My mother, whenever she passed away..." published in
> Journal of English Linguistics in 2001:
> http://eng.sagepub.com/content/29/3.toc
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> Matt Gordon
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> Hello all,
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> Could anyone point me in the direction to research done with "whenever"?
> I've encountered some exciting language use among my teen-aged nieces and
> nephew who use it in not to mean "every time that" or "whatever time that",
> but instead "when", i.e. "Whenever I was at my friend's house last weekend,
> we watched TV all day."
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> Thanks in advance for any help and/or direction you can offer me! :)
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> Best,
> Jason
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