Date:  Tue, 8 Feb 1994 06:50:10 -0500

From:  "E.W. Schneider" <EWSCHNEI[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ALF4.NGATE.UNI-REGENSBURG.D400.DE>

Subject: quotative "be like"



It`s interesting to see the discussion on quotative "be like" and its

status in last year`s ADS word-of-the-year selections. Those of you

who are more specifically interested in this might want to contact

Suzanne Romaine. At the 1990 International Conference on English

Historical Linguistics in Helsinki she gave a paper which traced this

phenomenon, entitled "Grammaticalization in progress" (or the like). It

is not in the Proceedings, though (ed. by Matti Rissannen et al.), and I

have no idea whether she has published it elsewhere or why she

replaced it by something on Tok Pisin.

Edgar Schneider

Edgar W. Schneider

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University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany

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