[Spellyans] long and short forms of bos
Ray Chubb
ray at spyrys.org
Sun Dec 28 09:25:27 GMT 2008
On 23 Kev 2008, at 14:45, nicholas williams wrote:
> The standard Nancean doctrine has always been that long forms of bos
> are
> used locatively and with the verbal noun as a participle, but that
> short
> forms are used with adjectives.
>
I am not sure that Nance would have been so restrictive. I have
always realised that one could use the long form, for example, with
objects that have no substance. e.g. "Ues can genough?" / Have you
got a song?
Ray Chubb
Portreth
Kernow
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