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"i got me a twitter dog": Personal datives in tweets (2013)

December 21, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis

Personal datives, as in "I got me a new raincoat," as they were used in tweets in 2013.

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December 21, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
personal datives, personal datives in twitter
corpus analysis
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"I got me a fiddle": Personal datives in pop music (1951-2014)

December 18, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis, music video essay

In this post, I look at personal datives in American popular music (1951-2014) and provide videos of several songs that feature personal datives.

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personal datives, personal datives in pop music
corpus analysis, music video essay
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Personal datives in the Middle Rockies

December 16, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in dialectology, corpus analysis

In this post, I examine the use of personal datives, as in "I got me a new girlfriend," in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies.

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December 16, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
personal datives, datives in lamr
dialectology, corpus analysis
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