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McNally, Louise

 
9781138690882: A Semantics for the English Existential Construction
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138690880 ISBN 13 : 9781138690882
Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction? One of the principal goals is to develop an interpretation for the construction that will specifically address other properties of the postcopular DP. After outlining the problem, the author goes on to present a syntactic motivation for the claim that the postcopular DP is the sole complement to the existential predicate, as well as for the claim that the optional final phrase is a predictive adjunct. In chapter 3 the interpretation for the basic existential construction is developed and then compared to analyses that take the postcopular DP to denote an ordinary individual or a generalised quantifier of individuals. This analysis is then augmented to account for the contribution of the final XP and shows how the predicate restriction can be derived from a more general condition on depictive/circumstantial VP-adjuncts. The final chapter contain some speculative discussion of the broader implications of the proposal in the context of data such as "list" existential and "presentational-there" sentences.

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Louise McNally

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138690880
ISBN 13 
9781138690882
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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