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| Date: | Friday, April 11, 2008, 23:32 |
In a message dated 4/11/2008 07:51:36 AM Central Daylight Time, edchen@MIT.EDU writes:> 2. Some sort of "locative inversion". > English: (there) is a mouse on the piece of cheese >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. stevo </HTML>
| Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> | |
| Edwin Chen <edchen@...> |