Re: What is this construction
| From: | Kit La Touche <kit@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 19, 2005, 13:05 |
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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
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> Pronoun Verb Object, Aux Subject
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> Where Aux is a form of "to do" or "to be" (or possibly another modal).
> For example,
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> He liked languages, did Tolkien.
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> It may be a particularly Northern English form. Does anyone know
> what such a construction is called?
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> Pete
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