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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Awdur Corfforaethol: SpringerLink (Online service)
Awduron Eraill: Comorovski, Ileana. (Golygydd, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Heusinger, Klaus. (Golygydd, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Rhifyn:1st ed. 2007.
Cyfres:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 84
Pynciau:
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6197-4
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.