Truth Without Predication: The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence

ISBN-13: 9781137483287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 169 str.

Rachel Szekely

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Feature-placing 3. Features 4. Placers 5. The Verb in There-sentences 6. Negation in There-sentences Conclusion ?

O autorze

Rachel Szekely is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Long Island University, and a graduate of the Linguistics program of The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.