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2023
Since the first formulation by Jespersen, the existential construction has neverceased to interest linguists, who have offered an increasingly fine-grained pictureof its properties. The contributions to this volume shed new light on variousfacets of existential constructions, from a multiplicity of angles and methodologicalapproaches.
Sarda, Laure, Lena, Ludovica
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Since the first formulation by Jespersen, the existential construction has neverceased to interest linguists, who have offered an increasingly fine-grained pictureof its properties. The contributions to this volume shed new light on variousfacets of existential constructions, from a multiplicity of angles and methodologicalapproaches.
Sarda, Laure, Lena, Ludovica
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Existential Constructions across Languages
2023This 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 ...
Sarda, Laure, Lena, Ludovica
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Folia Linguistica, 2013
The article investigates an unusual and poorly studied class of existential-like expressions in English, exemplified in the title. It is contended that these expressions represent a distinct grammatical sign or construction, with a distinct semantic meaning of its own that is not derivable from the meaning of the plain existential.
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The article investigates an unusual and poorly studied class of existential-like expressions in English, exemplified in the title. It is contended that these expressions represent a distinct grammatical sign or construction, with a distinct semantic meaning of its own that is not derivable from the meaning of the plain existential.
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Existential incorporation constructions
Lingua, 2009This paper examines existential pseudo noun incorporating (PNI) constructions in Niuean (Polynesian). There are two types of existential PNI constructions in Niuean, one in which the incorporated element is the pivot of the existential construction, and the other in which the incorporated element is a pronominal locative phrase, with the pivot serving ...
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Copular and existential constructions
2016Abstract The main goal of this chapter is critically to address from a comparative perspective some of the most important issues in Romance copular and existential constructions, covering such areas as the range of Romance copulas and their semantico-syntactic distribution; canonical vs inverse copular sentences; relationship between ...
Bentley, Delia, Ciconte, Francesco Maria
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Existential Constructions in Isbukun Bunun
Oceanic Linguistics, 2009This paper has two main goals. First, I demonstrate how the peculiar morpho-syntactic properties of the theme NPs in Isbukun Bunun existential sentences can be derived under an expletive account. The properties under investigation include structural Case marking, the emergence of definiteness restrictions, and the resistance of theme NPs to Ā ...
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On the passive existential construction
Studia Linguistica, 1999Presenting a cluster of facts regarding extraction, the distribution of adverbs and binding, this paper argues that the passive existential construction is not a matrix passive sentence but an existential construction in which the copula verb be takes a DP complement adjoined by a reduced relative clause, instead of a small clause complement.
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The Syntax of Existential Constructions
Linguistic Inquiry, 2004This article outlines an account of the syntax of existential constructions (e.g., There are [too many problems]) based on a view of the postcopular NPas a predicate. This NPfigures as the predicate in an embedded clausal complement of be with expletivethere as its subject.
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Mandarin existential construction as a reference-point construction
Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 2016All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express existential relations, but such means may vary from language to language. For instance, the existential construction in English is usually introduced by the so-called dummy word there whereas such a construction in Mandarin Chinese directly begins with a locative phrase.
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Existential constructions in Bantu languages
Abstract This chapter examines existential predication in a sample of one hundred Bantu languages found across the Bantu-speaking region. Following Creissels (2019a), existential constructions are defined in relation to plain locational clauses.Rasmus Bernander +2 more
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