Odp: [tied] English.

What we have ('ve got) here is just good old "have got" with the auxiliary
effaced, which happens often enough in "extreme" English dialects ("We gotta
go", "She gonna try", "He mad"). In "Ain't got narun", I suppose ain't <
ha'e-n't < have not ("I haven't got never-a-one"). No "do"-support, as far
as I can see.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: Rex H. McTyeire <rexbo@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: RE: [tied] English.


> The most common deep southern US corruption is not : "Do you got.."
> The "do" would still bring the "have" ...but drop the do..and its fair
game
> in limited application; such as:
>
> You got this?
> You got it?
> You got this one?
> Y'all got it now ?
> Got time for a beer? (Yes, I've got time for one.)
> You got enough cash on you?
>
> It would be considered unacceptable ( I have heard it, though, rarely) to
> use Sergei's:
>
> "Do you got a car?"
>
> .....But acceptable short form informal to ask:
>
> "You got a car?"
>
> Similarly, not: "I got a car" , but "I've got a car"
>
> Extreme 'country' usage, not heard since my youth, sometimes incorporated
> the "do":
>
> "Ain't got nar'un"
> as short for "I do not got nary a one"
> instead of "I don't have any(one) ."
>
> Slàinte mhath;
> Rex H. McTyeire