Re: "There can be"

>MorphemeAddict@... wrote:
>I disagree that this is a locative inversion.  "There" in "there
>is/are" is a particle, not used for any other purpose.  One can
>say "There are no books there", and the second "there" is a locative,
>but not the first.
If "there" is locative, I wonder how far away one has to stand to use
it.  It seems to me that, if one is right on top of the mouse, one
should say, "here is a mouse on the cheese."

Charlie

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