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Yes; no.
MrP
MrPedantic“ Yes; no. MrP ”
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Why "no"?
richard_s“I haven't noticed this other than in sentences in which I presume that the speaker changed their mind about what they were saying mid sentence. ”
I see. Do you think this, supposed, emergent use is only happening to the Kiwis?
Anonymous“ Why "no"? ”
Because I have seen no evidence to suggest that it might.
richard_s“I guess it must be if you attest to that fact. It's interesting that it hasn't made it across the Tasman though. ”
been observed in American, British, Australian and New Zealand English."
"A corpus of nearly 1600 past-time narrative verbs was created based on data
from a police reality television show where the PrP was frequently observed.
Transcripts of the show were tagged for discourse and other contextual features in
order to discover the most favourable contexts for PrP use. Analysis of the corpus
reveals that the PrP is able not only to collocate with past-time adverbials, but also to
be used as a narrative past tense, a use previously only reported in Australian English
(Engel and Ritz 2000)."From the above article.