[log in to unmask]" type="cite"> If we're talking Robert Burns here, aren't we running into the Northern Subject Rule, which states that you have present tense verbs take the -s suffix unless immediately proceeded by a personal pronoun, existential construction or not?
Paul Johnston
On Oct 27, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Marc FRYD <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Before this gets too cold, may I say that there is "there's", but there is also "there was", isn't there?
e.g. There was three kings into the east (John Barleycorn, Robert Burns).
Marc
On 27/10/2013 16:34, Paul Hopper wrote:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">So, an emergent existential... PaulYes, as I said, univerbation. Peter ________________________________________ From: Variationist List [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike) [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 27 October 2013 04:57 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Is vs. are research Howdy, Uri, the awareness is interesting, probably showing the traumatic effects of prescriptive schooling. Even President George H. W. Bush used "there's people" in non-formal speaking. It is interesting that in languages like Spanish ('hay'), Turkish ('var'), and Chinese ('you') there is a single word used to express the existential assertion. Probably English, left alone by teachers and editors, would eventuate in a single form 'theres'. --Rudy Rudy Troike University of Arizona - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Uri Horesh [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 10:12 AM Subject: Re: Is vs. are research? Even though I am, admittedly, kinda tired of this thread, I felt an urge to add the following anecdote that just appeared on my Twitter feed: @quixoticblazes: Just just overheard, re: restaurants in Chelsea: "God, there's [sic] people everywhere." (Gurl, you must be from out of town.) Quick & dirty analysis: Even though the writer himself doesn't shy way from non-standardisms (e.g., "Just just," "Gurl"), he made a point to indicate that there was something out of the ordinary with "there's people" by interjecting a "[sic]" between those two words. I'll say no more. Uri -- ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1 ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1
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