Bill,

Thanks for the link. I'm not surprised that counterexamples exist.  The grammaticalization of "want to" to "wanna" suggests that this would happen.  I'm sort of relieved to find that it does.  I can't say that I've heard such sentences myself, but I also may not have been listening for them.

Herb

-----Original Message-----
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William Spruiell
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:38 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: have + infinitive

Herb et al.

"Who do you wanna go?" doesn't strike me as out of bounds, particularly with contrastive stress on the "who" ("Wait a minute, WHO do you wanna go?"). But then, I've been teaching grammar, and thus have had ample opportunity to mess with my language system. I did a quick search and found the following blog post, which is partly on that subject:

http://quote.ucsd.edu/blogs/phonoloblog/2004/12/20/who-do-you-wanna-win/

The point still remains, of course, that it's a lot, lot *easier* to do this with 'hafta'/'hazta', or maybe it's more accurate to say it's more difficult to use an *un*-fused "have to."

Bill Spruiell
Dept. of English
Central Michigan University

To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
and select "Join or leave the list"

Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/

To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
and select "Join or leave the list"

Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/