On 9/28/04 10:36 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:Well, in my dialect of English, forms of this without "is" are ungrammatical, and so is "Mistah Kurtz he is dead". So I can't compare these forms in an unfamiliar dialect.
Well, (&W )DWM and YHWH H)LHYM would also be grammatical sentences, so
the added HW) is syntactically unnecessary here, just like the added HW)
or other pronoun in a sentence with a finite verb but no explicit
subject. The syntactic analogy of course does not necessarily imply
similar semantics.
Right. One question,
a. Mistah Kurtz--he dead
b. Mistah Kurtz [is] dead.
Assume these represent the BH clauses, are they equivalent?
If not, what type of function does "he" perform? Pragmatic? Semantic?
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