[Corpora-List] Re: 'Standard European English' ?

[TadPiotr]

A number of languages have a parallel use like this (with 'already'), for
example Polish.
Tadeusz Piotrowski

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no 
> [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Briony Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:57 PM
> To: Nicholas Sanders
> Cc: corpora at lists.uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Re: 'Standard European English' ?
> 
> Nicholas Sanders wrote:
> > Does the panel agree that the use of "already" in the 
> following is an 
> > example of SEE?
> > 
> >     Already in 1976, UNESCO itself mentioned that this 
> practice should 
> > only be used where absolutely necessary...
> 
> A more idiomatic phrasing might be:
> 
>    As early as 1976, UNESCO itself mentioned.....
> 
> Could this be a direct translation of German "schon"? - it's 
> frequently used in this kind of construction, in most cases 
> sentence-initially.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Briony Williams
>