Fascist ideas from the fascist-friendly Finns Party? Color me flabbergasted.

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Should I get the sword in case my defense goes sideways and I have to go on the offense??

Kiitoksia! (Thanks!)

Thanks! The title is taken from my data, which took it from the song (probably) because marketing borrows from other genres like that 😁

Yeah, that's what I remember reading too. And maybe that in some cases the divergence is happening faster than expected? Like, in the span of one generation.

You're right. US regional varieties are shifting (aka "dying out") but it's not because we're all starting to sound the same. The varieties are diverging more so varieties sound more different than before. Labov has a book (or more??) about this.

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I can't wait to find all the typos 😅

Congratulations, Ian! Well deserved!

Yeah, same question for me and I couldn't make it work. "rid" is clearly not the past participle of "ride". But I thought it might be the p. part. of "rid". I still like the other analyses better though (AdjP or PP).

I'm with you on analyzing chunks as lexical items. It's just tricky b/c parts of them can sometimes inflect for tense (for ex).

How about "get free of"? That's a near synonym where the participle is more clearly not a verb. But works the same way in that "I got free of X" = "I freed myself of X"

This is a good way of looking at it. Thanks!

(I was trying to analyze it on GET + past participle alone)

Heh, I didn't want to look it up in CGEL (or Longman) and checked two shorter sources, but they were both unclear. I guess I'll pull one of those behemoths off the shelf then. I like Florent's analysis here bsky.app/profile/fmon...

No, thank you! The clarity of arguments, the suggestions you make, the sources upon sources (my word!). I'm really thankful to all of you for this paper.

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