Truth without Predication: The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence

by R. Szekely

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349503216
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	169
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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