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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 ...
Diane Massam
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Existential constructions in English and Swedish
Languages in Contrast, 2012 Existential constructions introduce newsworthy information into the discourse by placing it in a position of prominence late in the message, in the Rheme. This study compares existential constructions in a sample of English and Swedish source texts and their translations in the English Swedish Parallel Corpus.
Herriman, Jennifer,
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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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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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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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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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The Locative Existential Construction in Chinese
2023The locative inversion constructions are characterized by a noncanonical word order where a locative phrase is inverted preceding the verb and the thematic subject follows the verb. This phenomenon is found quite common crosslinguistically, though whether “inversion” is the right label for the constructions or not remains controversial.
Yang Gu, Jie Guo
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2013
Existential constructions are normally defined as sentences in which some entity is associated with some location giving rise to the so-called locative paradigm which also involves the locative and the possessive construction (cf. Freeze 2001). In spite of the apparent simplicity of this approach, the assumption of an allegedly universal locative ...
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Existential constructions are normally defined as sentences in which some entity is associated with some location giving rise to the so-called locative paradigm which also involves the locative and the possessive construction (cf. Freeze 2001). In spite of the apparent simplicity of this approach, the assumption of an allegedly universal locative ...
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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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