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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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс eКнига |
| Язык: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Редактирование: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Серии: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy,
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| Online-ссылка: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6197-4 |
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Оглавление:
- 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.