Timeline for Can I contract "you is" to "you's"?
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| Nov 21, 2022 at 17:21 | comment | added | Rosie F | @herisson Fair enough, though this approach looks as if it relies on the concept of "part of speech" (e.g. noun), together with an analogous extension of that concept to phrases (e.g. NP). I thought that that concept was deprecated these days. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 16:22 | comment | added | herisson | @RosieF: Many linguists argue that things like verb phrases, clauses, etc. can be subjects, and that they should not be analyzed as converted into NPs in that context (basically, the idea is that we should reserve the term "NP/noun phrase" to phrases headed by nouns, and verb phrases or clauses are not headed by nouns) | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 15:41 | comment | added | FreeMan | "From some people's point of view, it is most "proper" to avoid contractions altogether" is that you, Data? | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 15:09 | comment | added | John Lawler | Also, you hafta distinguish between spelling, which is arbitrary and technological, and language, which is biological and evolved, and spoken. "Contraction" mostly refers to spelling. There are lotsa contractions that occur frequently in speech but normally don't in spelling. Largely because we don't know how they auta be spelled, given the junk heap of English spelling. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 8:16 | comment | added | Rosie F | If a constituent is a verb's subject, doesn't that imply that it's a NP? Saying a subject "does not have to be an NP" suggests a restriction on what a NP may consist of. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 4:09 | comment | added | herisson | @CJDennis: The quoted sentence is only about the contraction of is, because it occurs in the context of the section about clitic forms of auxiliary verbs | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 4:06 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | Is that talking about the clitic ['s] for the possessive, or a contraction of is? In this case, both are fine. "Loving you's easy." "The dog that bit you's teeth were very yellow." Although it doesn't sound great because of the nonstandard word "youse" (plural "you"). | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 3:52 | history | edited | herisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2022 at 1:57 | history | answered | herisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |