An instance of double-possessive appears in Sketches p. 201. 8.
They told him as ’ow it was folks’s own fault that they were poor.
(Cf. Swed. »hanses rock», etc.)
III. Syntactical Remarks.
Constructions with To be and the Present Participle are used colloquially, with the intention of vividness, in many cases where there is no particular reason to stress the fact that a thought is just a going on, a tendency especially characteristic of the Celtic-speaking Englishman. The uneducated vulgus have a strong predilection for these constructions and overdo them, as in the following examples, where there is not any reason at all for using them:
I’d ’ave ’ad to wait a long time, I’m thinking, if I ’adn’t come across this one ’ere. (T. T. T. 148. 18.)
Uncultivated Londoner.
You don’t see many fish that size about here now, I’m thinking. (Three Men In A Boat 221. 24.)
A farmer.