Your mam told my aunt told me

Dick Hudson dick at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk
Thu Aug 15 18:13:15 UTC 2002


Tibor thinks this is American:
(1)	Your mam told my aunt told me
Georgia denies all knowledge. I wonder if it's English-wide non-standard,
where subject relatives are allowed to have zero relative pronoun; i.e.
it's structurally like (2).
(2)	Your mam told my aunt who told me
This pattern is almost possible in UK standard in existentials:
(3)	There's a man outside wants to see you.

Dick

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