Hussra wrote:
Thomas-Sox-WorldSeries wrote:
I knew there was another word for it; I considered emailing one of my old linguistics professors to ask him. Those terms are probably the ones I used to hear. (One of Hemingway's characters spoke like this. Loved reading that.) Gonna look up some more.
It's a distinctive way to speak or write, and for some reason, I just love hearing it.
Will save this post so I remember all the names.
PS: I wrote a poem once that sort of did this, but the "you" is dropped:
"Might as well as face it, you're addicted to love"
pavlovian urge to spank it to the memory of that music video alone.
linguistics is where it's at. iirc, astronomy, classics and linguistics majors score highest on the GRE.
I tried and abandoned the first two in undergrad. Not many places have linguistics programs at the undergrad level, afaik.
If you do any googling on conversational deletion, you might run across this
impressively complete reddit response from a decade ago.
Flipping through the provided links it looks like the null subject subject matter is studied mostly in commonwealth nations.
Wow--that is indeed a complete response! That's like someone's graduate exam notes. I might start a diary just to do the drop.
Not too many linguistics programs for undergrads, but Illinois has at least two (and possibly two of the oldest) in UIUC and U of C. Not sure about NU. Lots of places connect it with TESOL, and those blankety-blanks know zero about linguistics. Good to hear from another linguistics guy, though.
One of my profs wrote her dissertation on WH-clefting. So weird how this is totally interesting. Most of the others were in sociolinguistics, which is just a blast.
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