Louise McNally

A Semantics for the English Existential Construction (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction? One of the principal goals is to develop an interpretation for the construction that will specifically address other properties of the postcopular DP. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315536477
• Artikelnr.: 47382000

Autorenporträt

Louise McNally

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Problem; 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Facts of be Accounted For 1.2.1 The
Definiteness Effect 1.2.2 The Predicate Restriction 1.3 Previous Analyses
1.3.1 There-Insertion and Its Descendants 1.3.2 Previous Characterizations
of the DE 1.3.3 The Predicate Restriction 1.4 Outline of Remaining
Chapters; 2 Existential Syntax; 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Identifying
VP-Adjuncts 2.2.1 Description 2.2.2 A Proposal for Depictive Adjuncts 2.3
Why a DP-External XP Must Be Posited 2.3.1 Arguments for Independence 2.3.2
Williams' Counterarguments 2.4 Supporting the Adjunct Analysis 2.4.1
Stowell's Small clause Diagnostics 2.4.2 Extraction 2.5 Chapter Summary; 3
The Existential, Descriptions, and Instantiation; 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Data
to Be Accounted For 3.2.1 Quantificational DPs 3.2.2 Scope 3.2.3 Contact
Clauses 3.2.4 Relative Clauses 3.3 Property Theory 3.3.1 The Syntax of PT
3.3.2 The Interpretation of PT 3.4 Interpreting the Existential 3.4.1 A
Dynamic PT Fragment of English 3.4.2 Interpreting Existential Sentences 3.5
Definites and the Other Half of the DE 3.5.1 Augmenting the Fragment 3.5.2
A Felicity Condition on Existentials 3.5.3 Summary 3.6 Advantages of the
Analysis 3.6.1 Acceptability of Quantified Kind DPs 3.6.2 Quantification
and Scope 3.6.3 Contact Clauses 3.6.4 Relativization 3.6.5 Summary; 4
Adjunct Predicates and the Predicate Restriction; 4.1 Introduction 4.2
Interpreting Depictive Adjuncts 4.2.1 The Adjunct Rule 4.2.2
Individual/Stage Sensitivity 4.3 Extending the Analysis 4.3.1 Nominalized
Functions as Controllers 4.3.2 The Predicate Restriction Revisited 4.4
Eventive Existentials 4.4.1 The Problem 4.4.2 Eventive Participles 4.4.3
Why These Existentials Are Not Passives 4.4.4 A Proposal 4.5 Chapter
Summary; 5 Some Final Remarks; 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Definites in the
Existential 5.2.1 List Existentials 5.2.2 Focus and Existential 5.3 Other
Expectations 5.3.1 Other Expletive There Sentences 5.3.2 The Existential
and Other Indexicals; References; Index