Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D

Name: Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D
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By Milsark, Gary L.

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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.

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

272

Release Date:

2013-12-06

Publication Date:

2013-11-21

Publisher:

Routledge

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0415725658

ISBN13:

9780415725651

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

575 g

Height:

161 cm

Width:

240 cm

Thickness:

19 cm

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