Truth Without Predication

The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-48328-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3305 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject–predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference explains the construction's unusual grammatical and discourse properties.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szekely, R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Feature-placing 3. Features 4. Placers 5. The Verb in There-sentences 6. Negation in There-sentences Conclusion ?

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Szekely is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Long Island University, and a graduate of the Linguistics program of The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.