Date:  Mon, 14 Mar 1994 08:50:06 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Nominative Us



Having said last night that I had run across a few samples of nominative

us in taped speech, I started looking for the sources this morning and

am beginning to think I dreamed them. I have it stuck in my not-always-

reliable brain that I noticed nominative us while working on something

unrelated to pronouns. The reason I remember it is that I was surprised.

Surely I made a note of it somewhere other than in my brain, but I can't

find any such note. And I really don't want to devote all of Spring Break

to chasing what may turn out to be a non-existent form. Surely I wasn't

thinking last night of objective we -- which I don't think would have

surprised me since that's an often-cited feature of Gullah. I guess the

point of this posting is to say that until I find some kind of confirmation

for what I said last night about nominative us, ignore it.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)