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Publication details [#1707]

Breivik, Leiv Egil. 1981. On the interpretation of existential 'there'. Language 57 (1) : 1–25.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
existential utterance | spatial adverbial
Language as a subject
English

Annotation

Existential 'there' is said not to be derived from a locative adverbial, but to be an NP inserted for syntactic and pragmatic reasons.