[Ads-l] that-which

[Herb Stahlke]

I did a paper in Language in 1976 titled "which that" and I wonder if this
Texas usage is a dialect retention of a form that  died out in other
dialects two or three hundred year ago.  We still have "except that," "now
that," "so that," and a few others, but "that" is generally gone after
complementizers.

Herb

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:32 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > that-which
>
> New to me, but I'm very much accustomed to hearing _which that_, e.g.:
>
> "This [flag] represents the country _which-that_ is the greatest country in
> the world."
>
> Very common among Texans black, white, and Latino, of my age-group. Used a
> lot by horse-opera "cowboys," too, back in the day.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 11:46 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > African-American WW2 vet on History Channel, "First to Fight: The Black
> > Tankers of World War II" (2006):
> >
> > "This [flag] represents the country that-which is the greatest country in
> > the world."
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
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> -Wilson
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