The Original Posting In A PDE Context
I’m fixing to go to a university and I am fixing to have some hard classes. I don’t know weather to do boxing one day a week or two days. I mean it would make it easier on me in college, but will I learn anything about boxing at all going one day a week A friend of mine is a professional and she only goes one day a week and goes to college. Discount Merrell Shoes I plan to stay in boxing for 3 years.
It is interesting to note that such reactions never occur in my data in response to . Internet data, in fact, uniquely show another type of textual evidence for a relatively more advanced grammatical age for in so far as it has become so conventionalized in its futurate usage as to participate in certain kinds of post-grammaticization processes, whereby a grammatical form can be deployed into discourse as, say, a noun that refers to the abstract grammatical meaning, as in. The use of , repeated here twice, is being used as a noun in an existential meaning where it warns that there are not going to be many more ‘finnas’ (i.e. warnings about what is likely to happen) and that action is imminent. Historically, such uses are important because they show a level of acceptance, or at least recognition of the form and its grammatical meaning, something that only happens after some time.
As I stated in the Introduction, there is good evidence that both AAE and non-AAE uses of fixing to are expanding in American English. This expansion, a phenomenon intimately related to and causal of increased frequency of use, provides further evidence of grammatical status since the more grammaticized a construction is the more frequent it is (Bybee et al., 1994). Here again < finna > shows strong evidence of being more grammaticized than the non-AAE forms. First regarding the non-AAE be fixing to or befixin’ to uses, I have found instances occurring on websites geared toward audiences in New Mexico (University of New Mexico student newspaper on line), Colorado and Iowa (Iowa Farmers’ Bureau). While complete ethnographic information on the authors of these web texts is unknown, the fact that the forms appear for non-Southern US audiences is significant and suggests a general spread of the form from its original geographic space. As also mentioned in the Introduction, such spread is well documented in the move from rural to urban settings in certain varieties of English such as Texan and Oklahoman English (Bailey, 1991; and Bailey, Wikle, Tillery & Sand, 1991).
In the case of < finna >, the spread of varieties of AAE out of the US South has also made it geographically more extensive. However, the spread of < finna > is not only explained through geographic movement but sociological expansion as well. Researchers have shown that there has arisen during the last part of the twentieth century a sharper division between AAE and non-AAE varieties and that AAE has spread to include a greater number of speakers who identify culturally with an African American identity (Wolfram & Schilling-Estes, 2006: 225-26). African American cultural cache and the concomitant expansion of the use of AAE are broad enough so that my internet data turned up uses of < finna > on websites in South Africa and Ghana!
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