Re: YAEDT? Syntax in dialects of English (was: Of accents & dialects (was: Azurian phonology))

Some of these show up in East Texas as well.

--- Daniel Prohaska <daniel@...> wrote:
> {them their days} [DEm DI8` de:z] “in those days”
[DIm D3` de:z]

>
> {these here haulmen} [Di:z I8` “O8lmEn] “these
> hauliers here”
[iz tSi` ...]  I ain't heard tell of hauliers afore so
I cain't right say how'd render that in Texan.

>
> {them as weren’t} “those who weren’t”
Them as is something I've only hear in the speech of
elderly Texans from rural areas.  My greataunt uses
it, but she's eighty-eight.  The one exception is the
saying "Them as can, do; them as can't, teach."

Another construction Aunt Dot is fond of is "of a".

"Well, we used to go into town for an icecream of a
Sunday."

Well, we used to go into town for icecream on Sundays.

"Of a Monday Momma used to wash."
[@v @ m@ndi mam@ just@ wa`rS]

Momma did laundry on Mondays.

Adam

Ed ñavisud in junu suñu pera nun regrediri ad ul Erodu, regrediruns ad il
sustrus provinchi peu'l via aurra.

Machu 2:12