Overheard: Infixation of a Compound Relative Pronoun
Professor overheard by Kent Hendricks:
“I paused for just a minute to let what-I-was-ever saying sink in…”
This is the most interesting form of infixation I have ever observed. This sentence refutes almost everything that was written about English morphology in the 1980s; I’m not sure about the 90s because most morphology from the 90s is over my head.
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 04/25 at 05:20 PM
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