English Existentials in Functional Grammar

✍ Scribed by Michael Hannay

Publisher: Foris Pubns USA
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Series: Functional Grammar Series, 3
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and symbols
Introduction
1. Existentials: a survey of general characteristics
2. Relevant aspects of Functional Grammar
3. The argument of the existential predicate
4. In support of the embedded predication analysis
5. Definite terms in existentials
6. The predicate restriction
7. Representations and expression rules
Conclusion
Notes
References
Author index
Subject index

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