Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D : English Linguistics)
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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780415725651
- ISBN-10: 0415725658
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: November 2013
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.23 pounds
- Page Count: 270
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