[Ads-l] Intrusive "of" rises again

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Mar 7, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
> 
> In a Boston Globe article today about Peyton Manning's "legacy", Ben Volin writes "As public of a persona as he has, we don't know much abut him."

an absolutely routine example of +of EDM (with trigger AS); the construction is a now-standard alternative to the older -of EDM.  see:

Page on EDM:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/linguistics-notes/edm/

brief notes on history and sociolinguistics of +of EDM:
http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/of-edm-in-the-comics/

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