Re: Ellipsis (was: Re: Italian Particles)

John Cowan wrote:
> (though true pidgin form would be "Me see her").
Actually, there are some pidgins that use the subject forms, like a
quote I remember from some Caribbean creole (I forget where, exactly)
"She do always follow what she grandmudder used to tell she" ("do" here
indicates habitual)

> "Funny" = "odd", not = "humorous".
Funny-strange and funny-ha-ha.

> > "Going to visit your aunt again this weekend?"
>
> Ditto.
Only in actual speech it would be "Gonna visit your aunt again this
weekend?".  Using the full form "going to" while dropping the subject
would sound a bit peculiar to me.

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