Re: What is this construction

It sounds like this would only be used in a case where the "bigness"
of the dog was in question.

On 9/19/05, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> Kit La Touche 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.
>
> Not that odd.  No odder than the tag question "Tolkien liked languages,
> didn't he?"
>