Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) Paperback / softback
by Gary L. Milsark
Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics series
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In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence of the unstressed, non-deictic, ‘existential’ there.
Thus the term will be used as a characterisation of a class of syntactic objects, not as a semantic description.
With ES sentences including formations such as ‘There were several people talking’ and ‘There ensued a riot’, perhaps nowhere else do we find so clearly displayed the complexity and subtlety of the syntactic and semantic interactions which determine the nature of human language.
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- Publication Date:09/12/2015
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/12/2015
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- ISBN:9781138969285
