Existence: Semantics and Syntax

✍ Scribed by Ronnie Cann (auth.), Ileana Comorovski, Klaus von Heusinger (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 331
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 84
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. The papers analyze the interaction between the basic notion of existence and pervasive phenomena of natural language, such as quantification and presupposition. The contributions represent state of the art research on theoretical and comparative issues related to the expression of existence, and make extensive reference to the semantic and syntactic facts of English and of various other languages. The richness of new data and the juxtaposition of different theoretical stances bring a number of new questions into focus.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English....Pages 13-48
Constituent Questions and the Copula of Specification....Pages 49-77
Predication and Equation in Copular Sentences: Russian vs. English....Pages 79-105
On Davidsonian and Kimian States....Pages 107-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Focus and the Basic Function of Chinese Existential You-Sentences....Pages 133-145
Existential Sentences, BE, and the Genitive of Negation in Russian....Pages 147-190
Negative Quantification and Existential Sentences....Pages 191-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Existence, Maximality, and the Semantics of Numeral Modifiers....Pages 223-252
Existential Import....Pages 253-271
Referentially Anchored Indefinites....Pages 273-292
On Singular Existential Quantifiers in Italian....Pages 293-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-332

✦ Subjects

Semantics; Syntax; Philosophy of Language; Comparative Linguistics; Romance Languages

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