Existential Sentences in English
Existential Sentences in English
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Existential Sentences in English by 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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780415725651 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415725658 |
| Title | Existential Sentences in English |
| Author | Gary L Milsark |
| Series | Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 270 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |