| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 11, 2001, 20:00 |
Ah, but there's a shift in meaning. At least for me, those two sentences are not equivalent. At least, it would be a little unnatural sounding to take the meaning of "there" in the original to be locative: There are X = X exists (w/o regard to specific place) X are there = X are currently located in that place Padraic. On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Andrew Chaney wrote:> on 10/10/01 19:11, Matthew Kehrt (matrix14@HOME.COM) wrote: > > > Hey, all, a question. > > > > If I say spomething along the lines of "There are butterflies", what is > > the subject of the sentence? I've heard it has none. How does this > > work? > > I've always read that (and phrases like it) as an inversion of "Butterflies > are there". Likewise "There's a book on the table" -> "A book is there on > the table". > > > andy. > > adchaney@louisiana.edu > http://adc.htmlplanet.com/ >