LINGUIST List 3.131

Sun 09 Feb 1992

Disc: Is, is

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1. , Re: 3.121 Is, is, But, Parsing Challenge
2. Scott Delancey, All's I know is
3. Monica Macaulay, is is

Message 1: Re: 3.121 Is, is, But, Parsing Challenge

Reply to Ron Smyth on "all's I know...." This looks like a contraction of
"all as I know..." similar to "there's some as....." for "there are some
 who..."a regular feature of my childhood dialect (English, East Kent), and
 presumably
influenced by Scandinavian, where I believe "som" can be both a relative pro-
noun and the equivalent of "as".
Mike Carter

_All's I know is_ would be perfectly regular in a dialect with
_as_ as a relative marker (as in _Them as has, gets_) -- All as
(= that) I know is. I've always assumed that this was the analysis;
any reason not to think so?
Scott DeLancey

Speaking of "All's I know is...", how about:
	"How's about ..."
--??

Monica