Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 10:01:51 -0500

From: ALICE FABER FABER%LENNY[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VENUS.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 4 May 1994 to 5 May 1994



Positive "anymore" is also used in pockets in the Hudson Valley. My parents

now live in a small town about an hour south of Albany, near the

CT/Massachusetts border, and people of their generation born and raised there

use anymore in unambiguously positive indicative sentences. If it helps in

isoglossing, this was in one of the original Dutch settlement areas and much

of the longtime population is of Dutch ancestry. The church in town is the

Reformed Church (to prefix Dutch would be redundant...).



Alice Faber

Faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Yalehask.bitnet

Faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Yalehask.Yale.edu