I found this article in my old e-mail.  I think it's very important for
ATEG members to consider as we gather for the convention.
All my best,
Jean
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/jul/11/mind-your-language-grammar-day

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Bruce Despain <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Richard,
>
>
> These are great examples of how the sentence fragment is handled today.  I
> believe that historical examples will find them simply punctuated
> differently, so as to avoid the "fragment" designation.  They might have
> been conceived of as appositives or adjuncts.  One common way was to place
> them after a dash (—) or colon+dash (:—).  The exception that comes to mind
> is the item in a list or outline.  This seems to be what your first example
> could be.  To this may be added the headline as in newspapers and
> magazines.  These latter fragments are not just sentence fragments but
> phrase fragments as well.  Sometimes more liberties in building compounds
> are also taken. (e.g., "police images" for "images of the police in combat
> gear")
>
> Bruce
>
> --- [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> From: "Prof. Richard Grant WAU" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Relevance of Syntax & Semantics: "I'm gonna write me some
> music about"
> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:12:29 -0400
>
> I agree with Herb's conclusion that the example is grammatical.
>
>
>
> I would, however, go further to say that such examples are not limited to
> informal registers and/or dialog but are rather intentional stylistic
> options for conveying effects and are used frequently by professional
> writers. In rhetorical circles they are referred to as a deliberate
> fragments or virtual sentences. By definition, deliberate fragment—as
> opposed to accidental ones—are complete thoughts represented by a basic
> sentence pattern or even just a word and are functionally used for doing
> the following:
>
>
>
> 1.            introducing a topic
>
> 2.            describing a scene
>
> 3.            representing conversation
>
> 4.            providing a succinct (perhaps even terse) conclusion
>
> 5.            emphasizing a point or an idea
>
>
>
> Here are three excerpts that demonstrate examples of deliberate fragments:
>
>
>
> 1.            *Early, grainy half-light in an old apartment by the frozen
> river*. Gerry slips in the brown-aired entryway and jiggles the key in
> the lock, pulling outward the way Dot told him, closing the door after and
> treading softly up the cat-grey carpeted stairs. –Louise Erdrich
>
>
>
> 2.            He had been expecting something more definite—chest pains, a
> stroke, arthritis—but it was only weakness that put a finish to his living
> alone. *A numbness in his head, an airy feeling when he walked*. *A
> wateriness in his bones that made it an effort to pick up his coffee cup in
> the morning*. –Anne Tyler
>
>
>
>
> 3.           But today, on this first day of May 2000, as Kerry sits in
> the cab of his truck describing these wonderful playgrounds of his
> childhood, the places themselves no longer exist, having all turned to open
> water years ago. *The bayous, the lakes, the forests, the magical islands
> – all gone*. It’s not like having your house burn down with all your
> childhood mementos in it, he tells me. *Baseball cards, photographs,
> trophies*. *The loss is absolute*.   Mike Tidwell, *Bayou Farewell* (112)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stahlke, Herbert
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:47 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Relevance of Syntax & Semantics: "I'm gonna write me some
> music about"
>
>
>
> I'd say it's a matter of register.  It's certainly not formal academic
> writing.  The average freshman comp instructor would probably label it a
> sentence fragment.  Hoowever, in dialog or in informal writing of other
> sorts it strikes me as both grammatical and apt.  It has a clear
> topic-comment structure.  Before the dash is background information, and
> after the dash is the predicate.  Omission of subject pronoun and Be verb
> is a marker of informal, casual style.
>
>
>
> Herb
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [
> mailto:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf
> Of [log in to unmask]
>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:59 AM
>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Subject: Re: Relevance of Syntax & Semantics: "I'm gonna write me some
> music about"
>
>
>
> Herbert,
>
> Please help with the following:
>
>
>
> Is this grammatically wrong?
>
>
>
> "Running errands, doing the laundry, walking the dogs--ready for this day
> to be over."
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> On Fri, 7/11/14, Stahlke, Herbert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Subject: Re: Relevance of Syntax & Semantics:  "I'm gonna write me some
> music about"
>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Date: Friday, July 11, 2014, 11:43 AM
>
>
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>  I'd like to take Craig's thoughts a step further.  As  one who began his
> lin=  guistic life doing field work on languages he knew little  about, I'm
> sensit=  ive to the influence a standard orthography has on our  analyses.
> Suppose y=  ou were doing field work on English with no orthography and
> little other in=  formation to rely on--or be misled by.  When you hear
> /aimn@go/ you would b=  y no stretch of the imagination connect that to
> "I am going  to go."  Rather=  , you'd identify the first person singular
> subject pronoun,  the /m/ perhaps=
>
>   marking progressive aspect (although you'd properly have  doubts about
> that=
>
>   conclusion), and the /n@/ as some sort of future or  intentional marker
> wor=  thy of considerably more research.  Maybe, after  comparing a number
> of dial=  ects you might come up with a historical internal  reconstruction
> that relat=  ed the form to "am going to," but that would have about as
> much bearing on =  your synchronic grammatical description as the equally
> historical discovery=
>
>   that the -t of "height" and the -th of "width" are the same  thing.
>
>
>
>  I fear sometimes that the extent to which our descriptions  look like our
> or=  thography or our grammatical traditions, they are not
> evidence-based.  The =  fact is that the results of grammaticalization are
> frequently not recoverab=  le except by diligent study by trained
> grammarians; they  remain opaque to n=  ormal native speakers.
>
>
>
>  Herb
>
>
>
>
>
>  Herbert F. W. Stahlke, Ph.D.
>
> Emeritus Professor of English
>
> Ball State University
>
> Muncie, IN  47306
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]
> DU <[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Hancock, Craig G <
> [log in to unmask]>
>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:13 AM
>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Subject: Re: Relevance of Syntax & Semantics: "I'm gonna  write me some
> musi=  c about"
>
>  Bob,
>
>     Phonetic reduction is a dynamic process  directly related to
> frequency. =  Since =93going to=94 can now combine in auxiliary like ways
> with main verbs=  , its use has dramatically expanded. Frequency of use
> correlates well with =  phonetic reduction. It=92s an observation about how
> language  shifts in form=
>
>   as it takes on new (expanded) function. Want to has  expanded range of
> use =  in the same way. The same patterns are at work in its  reduction.The
> consens=  us seems to be that it has modal like qualities.
>
>     Biologists make observations about form all  the time without thinking
> o=  f life itself as a formal system. What we need, I think, is  the
> equivalent =  of an anatomy and physiology. In the world of biology, the
> two are dynamica=  lly connected. No one would argue (scientifically) that
> biological forms ar=  e independent of function and no one would propose
> that  forms are unimporta=  nt.
>
>     In the biological world, it=92s hard to draw  strict clear lines
> between=
>
>   categories in part because adaptation is constant.
>
> Bybee=92s point=97and s=
>
> he=92s not the only one making it=97is that language is more  like biology
> t=  han it is like physics and chemistry. In some ways, this is  a renewed
> inter=  est in empirical observation. This is certainly not a  retreat from
> form.
>
>  Craig
>
>  From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar  [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> AMIOH.EDU <[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Bob Yates
>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:16 PM
>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Subject: Re: Relevance of Syntax & Semantics: "I'm gonna  write me some
> musi=  c about"
>
>  I=92m confused by the following observation from Craig.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Sent from Windows Mail
>
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>
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>
>
>
>  As Bybee points out, the kind of phonetic reduction we get  with 'gonna'
> and=
>
>   oughtta' is typical of grammaticalization. We don't say  "I'm gonna New
> Yor=  k" for "I'm going to New York," but we do say "I'm gonna  take the
> train to =  New York" or "It's gonna rain." We only use it for  expressions
> of intention=
>
>   and prediction, which are modal in function. This would be  a good
> formal a=  rgument for "going to" functioning as a constituent group  when
> modal functi=  ons are carried out, but not for physical movement: going
> plus to New York.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Now, if I understand Craig correctly, language is not a  formal system,
> yet =  he just made a formal distinction between =93going to=94  verb
> vs.=94 going =
>
> to=94 location.  It seems to me that we are dealing  with two different
> to=  =92s.  The to in =93going to=94 marks a verb and the to  in making a
> locatio=  n is a preposition.
>
>
>
>
>
>  By the way, gonna reduction is also reflected in wanna.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Bob Yates, University of Central Missouri
>
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> <p>I'd like to take Craig's thoughts a step further.
>
> &nbsp;As one who began=
>
>   his linguistic life doing field work on languages he knew  little about,
> I'=  m sensitive to the influence a standard orthography has on  our
> analyses. &n=  bsp;Suppose you were doing field work on English
>
>   with no orthography and little other information to rely  on--or be
> misled =  by. &nbsp;When you hear /aimn@go/ you would by no  stretch of
> the imaginatio=  n connect that to &quot;I am going to go.&quot;
> &nbsp;Rather, you'd identif=  y the first person singular subject pronoun,
> the /m/
>
>   perhaps&nbsp;marking progressive aspect (although you'd  properly have
> doub=  ts about that conclusion), and the /n@/ as some sort of  future or
> intention=  al marker worthy of considerably more research.
>
> &nbsp;Maybe, after comparin=
>
> g a number of dialects you might come up with
>
>   a historical internal reconstruction that related the form  to &quot;am
> goi=  ng to,&quot; but that would have about as much bearing  on your
> synchronic g=  rammatical description as the equally historical discovery
> that the -t of &=  quot;height&quot; and the -th of  &quot;width&quot; are
> the same
>
>   thing. &nbsp;</p>
>
> <p><br>
>
> </p>
>
> <p>I fear sometimes that the extent to which our  descriptions look like
> our=
>
>   orthography or our grammatical traditions, they are not  evidence-based.
> &n=  bsp;The fact is that the results of grammaticalization are  frequently
> not r=  ecoverable except by diligent study by
>
>   trained grammarians; they remain opaque to normal native  speakers.<br>
> </p>  <p><br>  </p>  <p>Herb&nbsp;<br>  </p>  <div>  <p><br>  </p>
> <p><br>  </p>  <div class=3D"BodyFragment"><font size=3D"2">  <div
> class=3D"PlainText">Herbert F. W. Stahlke,  Ph.D.<br>  Emeritus Professor
> of English<br>  Ball State University<br>  Muncie, IN&nbsp; 47306<br>
> [log in to unmask]</div>  </font></div>  </div>  <div style=3D"color:
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>
> style=3D"font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b>
>
> Assembly for the Teac=
>
> hing of English Grammar &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;  on behalf of
> Hanc=  ock, Craig G &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;<br>  <b>Sent:</b> Friday,
> July 11, 2014 10:13  AM<br>  <b>To:</b> [log in to unmask]<br>
> <b>Subject:</b> Re: Relevance of Syntax  &amp; Semantics: &quot;I'm gonna
> wr=  ite me some music about&quot;</font>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  </div>
> <div>  <div class=3D"WordSection1">  <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
> style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;C=
> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> color:#1F497D">Bob,</span></p>
>
> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
>
> style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;C=
> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Phon=  etic reduction is a dynamic
> process directly related to  frequency. Since =  =93going to=94 can now
> combine in auxiliary like ways with  main verbs, its =  use
>
>   has dramatically expanded. Frequency of use correlates well  with
> phonetic =  reduction. It=92s an observation about how language shifts  in
> form as it ta=  kes on new (expanded) function.
>
> <i>Want to</i> has expanded range of use in the  same way. The same
> patterns=
>
>   are at work in its reduction.The consensus seems to be that  it has
> modal l=  ike qualities.</span></p>  <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
> style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;C=
> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Biol=  ogists make observations about
> form all the time without  thinking of life i=  tself as a formal system.
> What we need, I think, is the  equivalent of an
>
>   anatomy and physiology. In the world of biology, the two  are
> dynamically c=  onnected. No one would argue (scientifically) that
> biological forms are ind=  ependent of function and no one would propose
> that forms are  unimportant.
>
> </span></p>
>
> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
>
> style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;C=
> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
>
> ;In the biological world, it=92s hard to draw strict clear  lines between
> ca=  tegories in part because adaptation is constant. Bybee=92s
> point=97and she=  =92s not the
>
>   only one making it=97is that language is more like biology  than it is
> like=
>
>   physics and chemistry. In some ways, this is a renewed  interest in
> empiric=  al observation. This is certainly not a retreat from form.
>
> </span></p>
>
> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
>
> style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;C=
> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span></p>
>
> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
>
> style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;C=
> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
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> color:#1F497D">Craig</span></p>
>
> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
>
> style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;C=
> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
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> color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span></p>
>
> <div>
>
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> style=3D"font-=
>
> size:10.0pt;
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> font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
>
> Assemb=
>
> ly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>]
>
> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Yates<br>
>
> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:16  PM<br>  <b>To:</b>
> [log in to unmask]<br>  <b>Subject:</b> Re: Relevance of Syntax
> &amp; Semantics: &quot;I'm gonna wr=  ite me some music
> about&quot;</span></p>  </div>  </div>  <p class=3D"MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
> <div>  <div>  <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot=
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>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot=
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> ;sans-serif&quot;">Sent from Windows
>
> Mail</span></p>
>
> </div>
>
> <div>
>
> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot=
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> </div>
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> letter-spacing:.25pt">From:</span></b><span
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> style=3D"=
>
> font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> letter-spacing:.25p=
>
> t">&nbsp;<a href=3D"mailto:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>"
>
> target=3D"_parent">Hancock,=
>
>   Craig G</a><br>
>
> <b>Sent:</b>&nbsp;=FDThursday=FD, =FDJuly=FD  =FD10=FD, =FD2014
> =FD2=FD:=FD0=  6=FD =FDPM<br>  <b>To:</b>&nbsp;<a href=3D"
> mailto:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>"
>
> target=3D"_par=
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> ent">[log in to unmask]</a></span><span
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> alibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p>
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> <div>
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> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot=
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> ;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;</span></p>
>
> </div>
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>
> <p style=3D"background:white"><em><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&=
>
> quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:black">As  Bybee points out,
> t</span></e=  m><span
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> co=
>
> lor:black">he kind of phonetic reduction we get with  'gonna' and oughtta'
> i=  s typical
>
>   of grammaticalization. We don't say &quot;I'm gonna New  York&quot; for
> &qu=  ot;I'm going to New York,&quot; but we do say  &quot;I'm gonna take
> the trai=  n to New York&quot; or &quot;It's gonna  rain.&quot; We only use
> it for expr=  essions of intention and prediction, which are modal in
> function. This woul=  d
>
>   be a good formal argument for &quot;going to&quot;  functioning as a
> consti=  tuent group when modal functions are carried out, but not  for
> physical move=
>
> ment:
>
> <em><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">=
>
> going</span></em> plus <em><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&=
>
> quot;sans-serif&quot;">to New
>
> York</span></em>.&nbsp;</span></p>
>
> <p style=3D"background:white"><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot=
>
> ;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
>
> color:black">&nbsp;</span></p>
>
> <p style=3D"background:white"><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot=
>
> ;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:black">Now, if I  understand Craig
> correctly=  , language is not a formal system, yet he just made a formal
> distinction be=  tween&nbsp;=93going to=94 verb vs.=94 going to=94
> location.&nbsp; It seems
>
>   to me that we are dealing with two different  to=92s.&nbsp; The to
> in&nbsp;=  =93going to=94 marks a&nbsp;verb and the&nbsp;to in  making a
> location is a&=  nbsp;preposition.&nbsp;  </span></p>  <p
> style=3D"background:white"><span  style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot=
>
> ;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
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> color:black">&nbsp;</span></p>
>
> <p style=3D"background:white"><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot=
>
> ;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:black">By the  way,&nbsp;gonna reduction
> is =  also reflected in wanna.&nbsp;  </span></p>  <p
> style=3D"background:white"><span  style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot=
>
> ;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
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> color:black">&nbsp;</span></p>
>
> <p style=3D"background:white"><span
>
> style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot=
>
> ;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:black">Bob Yates,  University of Central
> Mis=  souri&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>  </div>  </div>  </div>  </div>  </div>
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