Date:    Tue, 5 May 1998 15:51:51 -0400
<br>From:    Beverly Flanigan <flanigan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: go with
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<br>We had an exchange on the list about this usage a couple of years ago, I
<br>believe, and I (and others) said then that the expression is really a
<br>two-part (or phrasal) verb, not a verb plus an object-less preposition.
<br>Cf. run up (the flag), come along, sit down....  It's commonly used in
<br>Minnesota (and as far east as Chicago?) and is 'normal' for me, though not
<br>for my Indiana- and Ohio-bred son.  I've speculated that it's derived from
<br>Scandinavian and German influences on the immigrant English of that area
<br>(cf. mit-kommen, a separable verb in German), though I have no proof of
<br>this--yet.
<br>
<br>An article in _American Speech_ of Summer '97 discusses this under the head
<br>"Elliptical With" but in fact conflates elliptical prep. 'with' (as in
<br>"coffee with" or "hamburger without") with what the author calls
<br>"adverbial" 'with' and traces the latter to South African English <
<br>Afrikaans (which would have Germanic separable verbs, I assume).  This
<br>muddies the waters unnecessarily and leads the author to conclude that both
<br>uses now have a "low profile" but are still present in "the shadowy,
<br>peripheral registers" of AmerEnglish.  The references to the piece may lead
<br>you somewhere (Preston is cited on the phrasal verb), but hopefully not to
<br>this lumping together of jargon, register, and dialect!
<br>                                                                        Beverly Flanigan
<br>                                                                        Ohio out of Minnesota
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<br>At 02:02 PM 5/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
<br>>I have a student interested in study the expression "go with" (without an
<br>>object) as in, "I'm going to the store.  Do you want to go with?"
<br>>
<br>>Does anyone know of studies on the subject?  Would you use that expression
<br>>yourself?
<br>>
<br>>Cynthia Bernstein
<br>>English Dept., Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL 36849-5203
<br>>bernscy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.auburn.edu
<br>>phone:  334-844-9072
<br>>fax:    334-844-9027
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