Glenda,
"Fixin' to" is also quite popular here, too.
I teach a unit on Appalachian English in my grammar class when I teach it here at Eastern Kentucky University, where I am retired but still teaching part-time.
As I best remember, you're in Alabama. Correct?
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Marshall
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Subject: Re: "I'm gonna write"--verb + infinitive or verb + auxiliary?
Hi Marshall!
Where I live, the wording is "I'm fixin' to. We like to take our own good time when doing so won't cause a disaster.
Are you retired? Where are you living?
It's so good to hear you here.
Glenda
Glenda Conway
Professor, English
Coordinator, Harbert Writing Center
Department of English and Foreign Languages
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL 35115
205 665 6425 office
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Glenda,
Old classmate here!
"Going to" is many times regarded as a two-word modal auxiliary like the related "can," may," might" and others.
"I'm going to go"
"I may go."
Marshall Myers
Professor Emeritus
Eastern Kentucky University
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 8:05 PM
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Subject: Re: "I'm gonna write"--verb + infinitive or verb + auxiliary?
Glenda
This is the first message I have received from ATEG. I was not sure it was an active list.
I have a couple of brief observations:
1. You could interpret the structure either way, but you also need to explain to students the pragmatic meaning of the grammar in addition to labeling it with a pedagogical grammar structure.
2. One pragmatic meaning of "gonna" is to have an intention and subsequently a plan to do something. Intentions entail plans.
3. You might also mention the informal spoken linguistic register of the poem.
4. I was just reading yesterday about the progressive tense in the British National Corpus which found that overwhelming percentage of its use (65%) was what the author described as "repeatedness" or in other words, "an ongoing single event." An example of repeatedness from the corpus in the article was "You are once again doing it completely and utterly wrong." The source for this is a book chapter:
Romer, U. (2010). Using general and specialized corpora in English language teaching: Past, present, and future. In M. Compoy-Cubillo, B. Belles-Fortuno, and M. Gea-Valor. (Eds.), Corpus-based approaches to English language teaching (pp. 18-35). London: Continuum.
Romer conducted a large study of progressive in a 2005 book, Progressives, patterns, pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to progressive forms, functions, contexts, and dialectics.
I do not think repeatedness is the pragmatic function of the line, but teaching students about using corpus studies, and pragmatics to inform our knowledge of grammar is certainly worth the time.
Mike Busch
Greetings-
Today, in my Advanced English Grammar class, I showed Langston Hughes's "Daybreak in Alabama" as an example of a poem with two sentences.
I realized while showing the poem that I was not sure how to divide the slots of the first main clause, which is
...I'm gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama....
Shall I think of "I'm gonna write" as being equivalent to "I will write," thus considering "[a]m gonna" as an auxiliary to "write"?
Or shall I think of "I'm gonna write" as being equivalent to "I am going to write," thus considering "to write..." an adverbial infinitive phrase?
I would love to read some discussion on this clause and to be able to share it with my students afterward.
Thanks,
Glenda Conway
Professor, English
Coordinator, Harbert Writing Center
Department of English and Foreign Languages Station 6420 University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL 35115
205 665-6425 office
206 665-6422 fax
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