Date:  Tue, 1 Mar 1994 10:41:27 EST

From:  TERRY IRONS <t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSUACAD.MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>

Subject: Re: there's



Dear Theresa,



In 1991 Deborah Schriffin presented a keynote address at the

Mid-America Linguistics Meeting in Stillwater, OK entitled

"Approaches to Topic in Discourse: They have and There Is."

In her talk she reported quantitative information concerning discourse history

 information status and syntactic type of NPs in There is constructions.



I don't know if this work has been published anywhere, but you might

be able to contact Debbie and see if she has any quantitative info

on agreement that may help you out.



Terry Irons