Date:  Fri, 18 Mar 1994 15:57:12 -0500

From:  Cathy Ball <CBALL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET>

Subject: Re: New Genitive Pronoun?



Michael Montgomery writes: 'We must be very careful in assuming something is new

  by virtue of our paying

notice to it for the first time.'



Well said, Michael! I recall the discussion on LINGUIST of nominative

pronouns in accusative conjunctions occasioned by Bill Clinton's speech

(Give AL Gore and I a chance, or something like that), where a number of

people thought they had only just started hearing this and it has in fact

been around for at least 300 years, if not longer ...



 -- Cathy Ball (cball[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu)