Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)
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adverb
Adverb Preposing
analysis
Author_Gary L. Milsark
Category=CFK
Category=DS
Cleft Sentences
Complex Np
Complex Np Constraint
deep
Derived Constituent Structure
English syntax research
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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eq_isMigrated=2
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eq_non-fiction
existential construction analysis
Existential Sentences
generative grammar
insertion
Insertion Analysis
Inside Verbals
Iv ES
Jungle Rot
linguistic typology
Locative Adverbials
Main Verb
man
Man Shot
nonreferential there
Noun Complement
Np Preposing
Perception Verbs
Phrase Structure Rules
predicate
Predicate Restriction
preposing
PS Analysis
Quantifier Scope
Relative Clause Reduction
restriction
RLE
sentence structure analysis
shot
SPH.
structure
SVO Sentence
syntactic theory
Vp
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- ISBN 9780415725651
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
