[Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook: (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Herb Stahlke]

Speaker Ryan on Meet the Press this morning said "ompen" for "open."

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: A Texan on Facebook: (UNCLASSIFIED)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:47 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >=20
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
> > william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
> >=20
> >> need killing
> >=20
> >=20
> > It's the lack of _to be_ or _to get_between "needs" and "shot" in a =
> comment
> > posted by a Texan that was the point.
> >=20
> > When I was first told of the existence of this structure, it was said =
> to be
> > peculiar to the speech of Northern Pennsylvania, specifically to that =
> of
> > the NWPA town of Erie. This structure is also used by my wife, a =
> native of
> > the NEPA town of Kingston.
>
> The main studies on the "needs washed" construction, by Tom Murray and =
> Beth Simon, associate it with SE Ohio, W Pennsylvania, West Va., and =
> adjacent areas.  Their work, as well as a good recent paper by Elspeth =
> Edelstein, shows that "need", "want", and "like" are all possible with =
> bare past participles for some speakers, "need" and "want" for others, =
> and only "need" for still others, so there's an implicational relation.  =
> We have a page with these references and a synopsis of our research on =
> this family of constructions at =
> http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/needs-washed.
>
> LH
>
> > Next time, I won't assume that the ADS-L was listening, as I was =
> mentioning
> > this background to my wife. ;-)
> > --=20
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint =
> to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >=20
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
> org&d=3DAwIBaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
> xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DiNWc2Tn3n1Lf2wwjGehV0ZFnQFEQ43Bj_KdeTFWinwY&s=3Duat27B=
> dOVY9_L5CfnjTxJqEp-NXE8Rrp_bLf4CVZqis&e=3D=20
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org