Yes, and I'll now admit that I just heard an example of "there was + pl." on the radio today. Noticing is everything, as a great SLA scholar has said.
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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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