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Re: USAGE: NATLANG: I've Gots An English Question

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Monday, June 23, 2003, 1:33
>I'd analyze this as basically the historic present - "I goes to town" >is closer to "I go to town" (as in, "so, I go to town, and then...") >than it is to "I went to town". What to call it when it develops >features seperating it from the present, I don't know.
Perhaps "past by context"? _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail