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Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) - Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics Gary L. Milsark 1st edition
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Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) - Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
Gary L. Milsark
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.
272 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 9, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138969285 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
