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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, Maud Devos, Hannah Gibson   +2 more
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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.
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Locative and Existential Constructions in Ulwa

Anthropological Linguistics, 2009
This article lays out the morphosyntactic and semantic facts of existential and locative constructions in Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua). Locative constructions come in two types—those that take one of a small set of posture predicates, and those that are completely bare, having only a figure and locative (postpositional phrase) nonverbal predicate ...
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70. Existential constructions

2021
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16. Existential constructions

2016
Delia Bentley, Silvio Cruschina
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Existential and locative constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Linguistic Review, 2020
Waltraud Paul
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Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life Care

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2006
Harvey Max Chochinov, Kristin A Reynolds
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The effect of task-based instruction on the acquisition and use of English existential constructions by Iranian EFL learners

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
Ahmad Moinzadeh
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EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTIONS

2019
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Existential constructions

2001
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