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A Semantics for the English Existential Construction (Hardcover)
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A Semantics for the English Existential Construction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
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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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