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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction 2. Feature-placing 3. Features 4. Placers 5. The Verb in There-sentences 6. Negation in There-sentences Conclusion ?

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: R Szekely, R. Szekely, Rachel Szekely
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349503216
• ISBN: 978-1-349-50321-6
• No. of pages: 177
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Verb, Syntax, B, Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Grammar, Discourse, Negation, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar, Context, context sensitivity, Expletive there, Strong-weak distinction, predicate restriction, strong quantifiers