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

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

Paperback

Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 1349503215
ISBN13: 9781349503216
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 1 2015
Pages: 169
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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