In an interview with Xerox CEO Ursula Burns on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning (“If You Don’t Transform, You’re Stuck”), two pronoun case finds: an accusative whom “by position” and a nominative conjoined object I.
On Burns:
Xerox CEO Ursula Burns began her career with the company in 1980 as a summer intern. In 2009, she became the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.
Accusative by position (in this case, following the P for, though the pronoun functions as a predicative):
“What I found there was an organization that accepted me for whom I was.”
Non-standard but common.
NomConjObj (now so common that I’m reluctant to label it as non-standard):
[about her mother] “… to send my sister, my brother, and I to Catholic school”
May 25, 2012 at 10:34 am |
NomConjObj strikes me as colloquial rather than nonstandard.
May 25, 2012 at 1:37 pm |
I’ve been coming around to that view myself.
May 25, 2012 at 5:51 pm |
“NomConjObj”? I don’t recognize the language.
May 25, 2012 at 5:59 pm |
May 25, 2012 at 6:00 pm
here
April 29, 2019 at 2:04 am |
Speaking of Fortune 500 CEOs: while I was looking up Bill Clinton’s speeches, I caught a NomConjObj from Roger Johnson, CEO of Western Digital. In 1992, Johnson broke with the Republican Party to support Clinton. Here he is introducing Clinton at a campaign rally:
(“Kathryn” is Kathryn Thompson, a real estate developer with fund-raising connections to Johnson.)