[Lexicog] Fwd: Why Southern English deserves a separate grammar

[Rudolph Troike]

Here's another interesting response:

Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:36:13 -0700
From: Andrew Wedel <wedel at email.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: [LINGUA] Why Southern English deserves a separate grammar
To: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU

Fascinating! My dad's from TN, so I grew up visiting the south a lot.
In reading this, for the very first time in my life I realized that
'git' and 'get' are doubtless etymologically related. For me, 'git'
and 'get' are utterly separate lexical items, and 'I told him to
get', is simply an uninterpretable sentence fragment.

I am presently undergoing lexicon re-organization <ooo, ow>.

>Ron Moe wrote:
>
>(I can't think of a declarative sentence using 'get' in the sense 'leave a
>place'. I have to use the phrasal verbs 'get out' or 'get away'.) 'Go away!'
>and 'Get out of here!' can possibly be interpreted as literal. 'Beat it!' is
>a more clear example of an idiom. But all of these expressions have
>something in common: they are the normal ways in which someone tells someone
>to leave (especially when one is angry).
>
>From: David Tuggy
>Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:19 PM
>Subject: Re: lexical phrase
>
>I told him to git!
>




 
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