demonstrative or pronoun?

[Viktor El=?ISO-8859-2?B?ue0=?=k]

So German goes with Czech (see my previous post), clearly a lg. contact
issue. Viktor


On 8/7/09 6:25 PM, "Johannes Reese" <johannesreese at GMX.DE> wrote:
> 
> Dear David Gil,
> 
> I would use neither construction in German.
> 
> #Dies ist John
> ???Ich bin John
> 
> Rather a (somehow senseless) locative adverbial:
> 
> Hier ist John.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Johannes
>