TY  - BOOK
AU  - Comorovski,Ileana
AU  - Heusinger,Klaus
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Existence: Semantics and Syntax
T2  - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy,
SN  - 9781402061974
U1  - 401.43 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - LINGUISTICS
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
KW  - ROMANCE LANGUAGES
KW  - SEMANTICS
KW  - GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL
KW  - SYNTAX
KW  - PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 between the basic notion of existence and pervasive phenomena of natural language, such as quantification and presupposition. The contributions represent state of the art research on theoretical and comparative issues related to the expression of existence, and make extensive reference to the semantic and syntactic facts of English and of various other languages. The richness of new data and the juxtaposition of different theoretical stances bring a number of new questions into focus
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6197-4
ER  -