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Publication details [#11663]

Adams, Michael. 1997. Elliptical with. American Speech 72 (2) : 220–224. 5 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical semantics1 | uses of language

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

ISBN

0003-1283

Annotation

On the synchronic and diachronic American uses of elliptical 'with' (in the sense of 'along'). Proverbial use derives from culinary concepts, while adverbial use is claimed to derive form 19th-century slang. The influence of Afrikaans 'saam' is discarded.