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Existence: Semantics and Syntax

This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. The papers analyze the interaction bet...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Comorovski, Ileana (Editor), Heusinger, Klaus (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed. 2007
Series:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Subjects:
Syntax
Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar
Linguistics
Philosophy Of Language
Romance Languages
Language And Languages / Philosophy
Comparative Linguistics
Semiotics
Grammar, Comparative And General / Syntax
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Interpretation of the Copula
  • Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English
  • Constituent Questions and the Copula of Specification
  • Predication and Equation in Copular Sentences: Russian vs. English
  • On Davidsonian and Kimian States
  • Existential Sentences Across Languages
  • Focus and the Basic Function of Chinese Existential You-Sentences
  • Existential Sentences, BE, and the Genitive of Negation in Russian
  • Negative Quantification and Existential Sentences
  • Existence and the Interpretation of Noun Phrases
  • Existence, Maximality, and the Semantics of Numeral Modifiers
  • Existential Import
  • Referentially Anchored Indefinites
  • On Singular Existential Quantifiers in Italian

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