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On the nature of the verb in present day English (existential) there-constructions. Formal and communicative implications

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2002
There is general agreement that be is the verb 'par excellence' in so-called English existential there-constructions (existential TCs). In fact, on many occasions, a distinction is made between existential TCs -be TCs- and presentational TCs (non-be TCs).
Martínez Insúa, Ana Elina
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Locative Inversion in Vietnamese

Languages
This paper has four primary objectives. First, we examine two Vietnamese constructions—the locative and existential constructions—in which a locative phrase appears clause-initially, preceding a verb-DP sequence.
Trần Phan, Chao-Ting Tim Chou
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Present Day English Existential There-Constructions and their Pragmatics. Towards an Integrated Categorisation

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2001
This paper presents the pragmatics of there-constructions (henceforth TCs) as its main object of analysis. It seeks to provide the labels for a possible classification of TCs according to their communicative roles in their contexts of occurrence.
Ana E. Martínez Insua
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Existential Constructions and Constructions Predicating Existence

, 2022
The term existential construction has been argued to be a misnomer, as the primary function of these constructions is not to predicate existence. In this study, I compare these constructions with ones whose primary function is to predicate existence using a stratified sample of European languages.
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THE COMPETITION TER, HAVER AND EXISTIR IN THE SCHOLAR WRITTEN

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2015
Considering that, in Brazilian Portuguese, “ter” is the existential verb selected by the speech, but in the written, “haver” is the canonical existential verb and “existir”, due its character of noun existential verb and hence trend to present a low and
Elyne Giselle de Santana Lima Aguiar VITÓRIO
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La prédication en grammaire générative

Corela, 2017
In this paper, we try to synthesize the various approaches to predication under the Principles & Parameters framework. It is first shown that, from a typological point of view, predication is closely linked to the verb, and more precisely to the ...
Jean-Charles KHALIFA
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A Relational Approach to Digital Sovereignty: e-Estonia Between Russia and the West

International Journal of Communication, 2022
This article explores the cultural logics underlying national digital sovereignty, defined here as statecraft relating to information and telecommunication technologies. Drawing on constructivist theories of national identity and technology, it proposes
Stanislav Budnitsky
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The Origin and Evolution of the Opposition between Testimonial and Factual Evidentials in Purik and Other Varieties of Tibetan

Open Linguistics, 2017
The main purpose of this paper is to elucidate a special type of egophoric markers found in Purik and other varieties of Tibetan. These factual evidential markers, deriving from the Written Tibetan existential copula yod, are regularly used in Purik to ...
Zemp Marius
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Mandarin Chinese ditransitive construction comprehension involves simulating transfer directions: evidence from saccadic tasks

Cognitive Linguistics
Language comprehension involves simulating event representations. However, previous research has primarily focused on discrete linguistic cues, paying little attention to how syntactic constructions influence experiential simulations. This study examines
Zhang Wanyu, Yang Qi, Zhang Yuxin, Zhang Hui   +3 more
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Syncretism in Russian Syntax

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2015
The article deals with two types of syntactical constructions characterized by syncretic semantics: firstly, so-called secondary parts of sentence, secondly, existential-and-identifying type of sentences.
O A Krylova, L N Anipkina
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