>> >(1) Here's me.
>I don't have a problem with _here_ being the subject, but what is _me_,
>and how come the meaning is approximately "I am at this place" and not
>"I am this place"?
## "me" is (in my classification of complements) a free complement, i.e.
the normal complement after equative BE. I think the sentence means "This
(here) person is me."
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