Date:  Wed, 26 Oct 1994 02:00:00 LCL

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: go/come with



fritz said:

>

> > leaving out the object in "go/come with" is typical of northern

> > illinois and other parts of the midwest, and presumed by many to be

> > from germanic influence.

> Lynne, what do you mean when you say that this is presumed to be from

> "germanic" influence? Don't you mean GERMAN influence? If this is

> indeed a transfer from German, it should not be thought of as "leaving

> out the object", as the German verbs 'mitgehen' and 'mitkommen' are

> separable verbs which require no object. BTW, my wife,

> a native Oregonian, says "go/come with." It sounds odd to me in English,

> though; but now that we are in Minnesota, she feels right at home.

> Fritz Juengling

>



i said "germanic" because i'm not sure that it is from german, since

there is a large and (linguistically) influential scandinavian

population in that area, and maybe it's from there, i don't know. it

seems to me that this query was answered within the last year either

on this list or on Linguist--does anyone remember?



certainly, in south africa (my other e.g.) i need to say "germanic"

since it came from afrikaans.



lynne



> > ______________________________________________________________________

> > M. Lynne Murphy

> > Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics          phone: 27(11)716-2340

> > University of the Witwatersrand         fax:  27(11)716-8030

> > Johannesburg 2050         e-mail: 104lyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]muse.arts.wits.ac.za

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> >

>

______________________________________________________________________

M. Lynne Murphy

Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics          phone: 27(11)716-2340

University of the Witwatersrand         fax:  27(11)716-8030

Johannesburg 2050         e-mail: 104lyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]muse.arts.wits.ac.za

South Africa