End of ADS-L Digest - 29 Oct 1997 to 30 Oct 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 30 Oct 1997 to 31 Oct 1997
There are 27 messages totalling 880 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. "Smell of" (3)
 2. help sought on frontierish language
 3. "Bless you" (was "Good morning")
 4. thank you . . . thank you
 5. the mindlessness of "bless you"
 6. Neck Hue (3)
 7. Sneeze
 8. sea change (2)
 9. hello/good-bye
 10. Pop Goes The Weasel
 11. <No subject given>
 12. Hill Jack/jake/jakey
 13. rat's ass, nigger, redneck,...
 14. PC Dictionaries? (4)
 15. "my bad" (2)
 16. haywire rockabilly
 17. Bologna tra-la-las & chicken-wire floats
 18. Reflexives in American dialects of English

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Date:  Fri, 31 Oct 1997 08:58:18 -0500
From:  "Dennis R. Preston" <preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Smell of"

If it was discussed with regard to 'smell' only then it is certainly not
complete. I don't remember the earlier discussion, but the use of 'of' with
sense verbs (taste, smell, feel) is widely distributed in the US south
(and, I suspect, has varying patterns of social significance). Note the
parallel with nominal forms of these verbs in such phrases as 'Take/have a
taste of this.' Danny Long pointed out that the 'of' appearance in verbs
appears to be limited to grammatical imperatives (pragmatically they are
often 'invitations' or 'offers'), and that would seem to even more strongly
relate them to the parallel nominal forms. If Danny is right, then 'Smell
of this' is gram matical, but 'I smelled of that rose yesterday' (with the
proper meaning - not 'I had the smell of a rose myself') is ungrammatical.
I'm not a sense-verb + 'of' speaker myself. Is that right for those of you
who are?

Dennis

  >smell / smell of was discussed on ads-l last year some time. You might
>look up the interchanges in the ads archives to see earlier comments.

Dennis R. Preston
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Michigan State University
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