Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:31:40 -0400

From: KENNETH SETZER KSETZE01[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SERVAX.FIU.EDU

Subject: Re: come with



I'm told "come with" is typical of Chicagoans ,which supports the German

influence hypothesis, since a lot of Germans settled there. As a matter of

fact, I hear this construction at home every day from my Chicago-born wife.

Personally, I've only heard "do you want?" and "I got" objectless construc-

tions from speakers with a Yiddish background, who happened to live in

New York, but German and Yiddish syntax are certainly similar enough. Has

anyone else heard these kinds of things in New York?