Re: What is this construction

It doesn't seem to me to be a national dialect.  I've lived in a
Central American accent area as well as southern California and both
of these sound like bad grammatical constructions that one would not
normally hear.

On 9/19/05, Kit La Touche <kit@...> wrote:
> it's a topicalization, as far as i can see.  much like the
> construction "it's really big, that dog" or some such.  the strange
> thing is the use of the aux, really.
> kit
>
> On Sep 19, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> > English occasionally uses a sentence structure of the form
> >
> > Pronoun Verb Object, Aux Subject
> >
> > Where Aux is a form of "to do" or "to be" (or possibly another modal).
> > For example,
> >
> > He liked languages, did Tolkien.
> >
> > It may be a particularly Northern English form. Does anyone know
> > what such a construction is called?
> >
> > Pete
>