Chapter 1
Existential constructions
In search of a definition
Laure Sarda | LATTICE – CNRS (Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.On the form of existentials
- 2.1The expletive
- 2.2The proform
- 2.3The copula
- 2.4The pivot
- 2.5The coda
- 3.Existentials: Definitions
- 4.Semantic and discourse-functional properties of existentials
- 4.1The polyfunctionality of existentials
- 4.2Is the existential construction necessarily a morphosyntactically-marked construction?
- 4.3Extension of the “non-canonicity” criterion
- 5.Outline of the volume and main research questions
- 6.Concluding remarks
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Notes
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