Dan McGrew and topic marking
Phil Jensen, who recently discovered Language Log and is working his
way through it systematically (in the past week, two people have
reported to me that they're doing this!), writes that he followed a
link from 2005 back to "the earlier long post on prosody" -- Mark
Liberman's "An internet pilgrim's guide to accentual-syllabic verse"
of
7/6/04 -- and then moved on to
my
10/24/05 posting on topic-marking
in
terms of, so that he experienced the juxtaposition of fair
chunks of "Dangerous Dan McGrew" with my example of topic-marking Left
Dislocation:
Office hours, they're from two to four.
Ah, he thought, here we want something like
said the T.A. we all called Sue
to follow.
And now I have a wretched earworm.
zwicky at-sign csli period stanford period edu
Posted by Arnold Zwicky at September 21, 2006 02:56 PM