This right here
Source: Language Log ·
Over the past decade or so, this right here and that right there have become increasingly common as fixed expressions, emphasizing what might earlier have been simple demonstrative pronouns this and that. Or so it has seemed to me — and Google Ngrams confirms it: It also seems obvious that crossing the proximal/distal association of pronouns […]
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