The English existential
English existential
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Published on 25. October 2012
VIII, 146 pages
978-3-11-135718-8 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- 0. INTRODUCTION: THE ENGLISH EXISTENTIAL AND UNIVERSALS OF LANGUAGE
- 0.1. The English Existential
- 0.2. The English Existential and Language Universals
- 1. THE PHRASE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
- 1.1. The Competing Hypotheses
- 1.2. The Distribution of there in Deep Structure
- 1.3. The Agreement and the Progressive Conditions
- 1.4. There as a Determiner
- 1.5. Conclusion
- 2. THE PHRASE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND CLEFT REDUCTION
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. The Reduced Cleft Analysis
- 2.3. Other Cases of Cleft Reduction
- 2.4. Conclusion
- 3. THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS
- 3.1. There-insertion
- 3.2. There-insertion and the Cycle
- 3.3. There-insertion and Derived Constituent Structure
- 3.4. There-insertion and the Feature (In)definite
- 3.5. There-insertion and Semantic Features (Agency, Genericity, and (In)alienability)
- 3.6. Conclusion
- 4. STANDARD THERE-INSERTION
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. The Two bes Argument
- 4.3. The Semi-modal Argument
- 4.4. The Predicate Nominal Argument
- 4.5. Other Arguments
- 4.6. Conclusion
- 5. THERE-INSERTION AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. The E Rule
- 5.3. The Leftmost be Condition
- 5.4. The Semi-modal Restriction
- 5.5. The Definiteness Restriction
- 5.6. The Predicate Restriction
- 5.7. Extraction Arguments
- 5.8. Other Arguments
- 5.9. Stress in Existentials
- 6. THE STRUCTURE-PRESERVING ANALYSIS OF THERE-INSERTION
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. The Optional/Obligatory Argument
- 6.3. The Semi-modal Argument
- 6.4. The Predicate Restriction
- 6.5. Criticism of the Structure-preserving Formulation
- 7. THERE-INSERTION IN GENERATIVE SEMANTICS
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Criticism of McCawley's Analysis
- 8. LOCATIVE ANALYSES OF THERE-INSERTION
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. The Locative Analysis of Kuno
- 8.3. The Locative Analysis of Kimball
- 8.4. The Case Grammar Analysis
- 9. CONCLUSION
- 10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
