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 Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781138969285
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220866388
Product Key Features
Book Title
Existential Sentences in English
Author
Gary L. Milsark
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
454g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gary L. Milsark
Series Title
Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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