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Author | : Gary L. Milsark |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317931580 |
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.
Author | : Gary L. Milsark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Michael Lumsden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317933702 |
What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.
Author | : Violeta Kalėdaitė |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Existential sentences in the world's languages tend to develop specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical properties. The present work offers a contrastive functional analysis of these constructions in two typologically unrelated languages, English and Lithuanian. The study focuses on the relationship between the syntactic structure of different existential sentence types and their meaning; it also explores the semantic and pragmatic parameters relevant to the structural differences within a single language and across the two compared languages. Most importantly, a new definition of the existential sentence, which takes into account both semantic and syntactic criteria, is proposed for Lithuanian. The findings are drawn on the basis of the corpus and highlight conspicuous differences in the linguistic representations of the construction in the two languages. With respect to Lithuanian, communicative word order variations, language-specific structures (the BKI and the impersonal passive), and a wider use of lexical verbs present an area of special interest. Contents: The English existential: definition and classification -- General characteristics: structural patterns -- Semantic types -- Word order -- The interpretation of there -- Verbs in the construction -- The definiteness restriction -- Lithuanian existentials: the semantics of the basic sentence patterns -- Types of 'be' existentials -- Communicative types of existential sentences -- Semantic classes of acceptable lexical verbs -- Definite and indefinite subject NPs -- Language-specific existential structures.
Author | : Gary L. Milsark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Lumsden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317933710 |
What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.
Author | : Laure Sarda |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2023-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027252882 |
This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships between locative, existential, and information structure, (iii) the quantification of the pivot and (iv) the issue of negative existentials. It brings together different and complementary approaches (functional, cognitive, pragmatic, typological, comparative, diachronic, philosophical) based on a wide variety of data sources. The contributions illustrate how the so-called existential construction can take a variety of forms – more or less grammaticalized – and functions – ranging from the expression of literal existence to that of localization and discursive focus – in a wide range of languages. The book will be valuable for linguists, researchers or students, interested in the cross-linguistic manifestations of existential constructions at the interface between syntax, semantics and information structure.
Author | : Johan Van Der Auwera |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317933478 |
This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. In the spirit of pluralism, there is no single paradigm unifying all the papers, rather, the volume reflects elements of the Extended Standard Theory, Generative Semantics, Montague Grammar, (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.
Author | : R. Szekely |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1137483296 |
This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject–predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference explains the construction's unusual grammatical and discourse properties.
Author | : Gary L. Milsark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1974* |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |