"there's" + <plural noun>

[Douglas G. Wilson]

Grant Barrett wrote:
> Can anyone point me to something definitive on the the use of
> "there's" followed by a plural noun? I understand it to behave
> somewhat like "hay" in Spanish and "il y a" in French.
>
> I have seen this Language Log post by Mark Liberman, which is a good
> start:
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002447.html
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Here's an old 'thread':

http://lloyd.emich.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0204A&L=ADS-L&D=0&m=20360&P=11051

-- Doug Wilson

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