Timeline for Why are certain there-sentences infelicitous in English?
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| Sep 24, 2011 at 14:42 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Sep 23, 2011 at 13:01 | comment | added | onomatomaniak | Oops! Good call. I didn't read the third example carefully. I think the idea of introducing new information could still be argued for, though. For instance, 'Behind the president, there was a statue dedicated to lost sailors' is fine, but 'Behind the president, there was the statue dedicated to lost sailors' is off again. Perhaps because the VP exists as an entity anyway, such that we can use a direct article, he doesn't qualify as a 'new' piece of information. | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 10:38 | comment | added | z7sg Ѫ | What about the veep? | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:37 | history | answered | onomatomaniak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |