Date:  Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:18:22 -0500
<br>From:  "Bethany K. Dumas"  dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: For to ....
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<br>On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Ditra Henry wrote:
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<br>      I've heard this construction among many African Americans in the
<br>  Chicago area and I'm wondering if this is an AAVE construction or
<br>  hypercorrection or is it just a Southern construction?
<br>  examples: May I use your phone?
<br>       Why do you need to use the phone?
<br>       for to call my insurance company for a question.
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<br>There's a note on the construction in one of the old t-g textbooks, maybe
<br>Jacobs & Rosenbaum, if memory serves me as well as I think it does. Think
<br>also of the spiritual that contains the words, "Coming for to carry me
<br>home." I think it is an older, possibly Southern pattern.
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<br>Bethany
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