title: [On the usages of I'm there].
abstract: An English place adverb there basically does not refer to a place which belongs to the speaker's territory at the time of utterance. However, there is an expression, I'm there, which appears to violate this condition. I examine the usages of this expression as well as related expressions, which include a case where there indirectly identifies a place where the speaker is at the time of utterance, a case where it metaphorically refers to a "state", and an idiomatic usage meaning, "I will definitely go there."
authors.affiliation: Division of English Language, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohashi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics