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Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics) - Softcover

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Milsark, Gary L.

 
9781138969285: Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 1138969281 ISBN 13: 9781138969285
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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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Gary L. Milsark

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138969281
ISBN 13 
9781138969285
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272