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

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