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Sneakergroove Posted 18 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Where there's smoke, there's hydrogen cyanide.

Hello everyone,

I would like to know how I could appropriately analyze the above sentence.

Could it be analyzed in the following way?

3rdpps BE THERE Th: Located (hydrogen cyanide) SUB CON (where) 3rdpps BE THERE Source Emotion: smoking

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

sneakergroove
  

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Hi, Just out of curiosity, what do you call this type of analysis? I've never seen anything like it. Best wishes, - A.

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Hi,

Just out of curiosity, what do you call this type of analysis? I've never seen anything like it.

Best wishes, - A.
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It seems to work; though I'm not sure why the "smoke" is labelled "source". That would seem to restrict the meaning.

(I share Avangi's interest, by the way.)

MrP
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Hello,

First of all, thank you both for taking the time to respond to my post. I greatly appreciate it. To answer the first question, this type of analysis stems from a socio-cognitive grammar of English that I learned in university about 10 years ago.

To answer the second question, I chose Source to accompany the Th: Located. However, I understand that this is not fully correct
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