Truth without Predication
The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence| By: | R. Szekely |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137483287 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137483294 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.