LL-L "Language Varieties" 2003.07.06 [E]

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From: Kevin Caldwell <kcaldwell31 at comcast.net>
Subject: Language Varieties

Ron wrote:

> Here at the western extreme of the Florida Panhandle I have been noticing
> two interesting linguistic features, and I wonder how widely spread they
> are.  The first is a semantic feature and the second a phonological one.
> If you respond, please try to separate them so we can divide your
> responses into the threads "Semantics" and "Phonology" respectively.
>
> (1) Semantics:
>
> Where genitives are used, several of the local speakers put into
> adjectival place phrases that
> otherwise would be relative; for example,
>
> That('s) the ole-guy-who-I-do-his-tax(es)-('s) house.
> (That's the house of the old guy whose taxes I do.)
>
> He('s) the cousin-I-grew-up-with-in-Pushmataha('s) son.
> (He's the son of the cousin with whom I grew up in Pushmataha.)
>
> How widespread is this feature in American and other English and Lowlands
> dialects?

I'd say it is fairly widespread, especially in the South.  I find myself
saying things like this once in a while.  My parents are from West Tennessee
and Kentucky, and I grew up mainly in the Western US (Arizona, Colorado,
Oregon, and California) and in East Tennessee (Knoxville, to be specific).
I suppose most of my speech patterns were shaped by living in Tennessee.  I
can easily imagine (and understand) such sentences as:

That's my cousin Jimmy from Kingsport's truck.


Kevin Caldwell (kcaldwell31 at comcast.net)

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