Thursday, February 18, 2010

Bazaar employs people?


These signs were taken during our Christmas Break in December last year to Istanbul, Turkey. I uploaded both photos as the incidence of different priming is evident in the second picture but the 'it' in this is an anaphoric reference to 'The Grand Bazaar' in the first picture. To focus, here is the phrase which aroused my interest. 'The Grand Bazaar employs more than 30,000 people'. I guess in our community, we usually place a human or group of humans before the verb, 'employ', and not places, even though the meaning is quite clear, that the many shops housed in the grand bazaar provide employment opportunities for 30,000 people.

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