Listening a couple of days ago to the radio program Exploring Music, I learned something about English morphology. The episode broadcast on 5/18/2026 has the title "What else ya got?", and host Bill McGlaughlin introduces it this way: Your browser does not support the audio element. The first featured composer was Johann Pachelbel, best known for the Canon in D, and the host asks the featured question this way: Your browser does not support the audio element. By the time we've been through a few more composers, McGlaughlin expresses the question in a more colloquial way: Your browser does not support the audio element. That's a perfectly normal (though informal) phrase in my variety of American English. But as I listened, it occurred to me that substituting other pronouns results in a wide range of acceptability. Intuitions about such things are notoriously unreliable, but FWIW, "What else we got?" seems marginal for me, and "*What else I/she/he/it/they got?" all seem wrong (though…
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