27.2954, Disc: Re: About the construction of ''NP there be''

Wed Jul 13 18:07:32 UTC 2016

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Subject: 27.2954, Disc: Re: About the construction of ''NP there be''

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:07:20
From: C. E. Whitehead [cewcathar at hotmail.com]
Subject: Re: About the construction of ''NP there be''

Hi, we do not use that construction today; it's common in Beowulf which had  a
few more case endings than modern English does. It does seem that focus might
play a role in word order -- not sure, have you read Halliday on theme-rheme
(The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific
discourse: Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.)?

Wish I had more to say but I do not.

Best,

--C. E. Whitehead

cewcathar at hotmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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