Existence: Semantics and Syntax

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Comorovski, Ileana (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Heusinger, Klaus von (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Σειρά: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 84
• Θέματα: Linguistics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Comparative linguistics.; Grammar.; Romance languages.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Philosophy of Language.; Comparative Linguistics.; Romance Languages.

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 bet...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Interpretation of the Copula
• Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English
• Constituent Questions and the Copula of Specification
• Predication and Equation in Copular Sentences: Russian vs. English
• On Davidsonian and Kimian States
• Existential Sentences Across Languages
• Focus and the Basic Function of Chinese Existential You-Sentences
• Existential Sentences, BE, and the Genitive of Negation in Russian
• Negative Quantification and Existential Sentences
• Existence and the Interpretation of Noun Phrases
• Existence, Maximality, and the Semantics of Numeral Modifiers
• Existential Import
• Referentially Anchored Indefinites
• On Singular Existential Quantifiers in Italian.