Truth without Predication

The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence

R. Szekely (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

169 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-50321-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Rachel Szekely is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Long Island University, and a graduate of the Linguistics program of The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Feature-placing 3. Features 4. Placers 5. The Verb in There-sentences 6. Negation in There-sentences Conclusion ?

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 169 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	ConText • context sensitivity • definiteness effects • Definiteness restriction • existential sentences • Expletive there • individual level distinction • predicate • predicate restriction • Speech Acts • Stage-level • strong quantifiers • Strong-weak distinction • Subject • subjectless sentences • There-sentences • thetic judgment • Thetic sentence • Truth
ISBN-10	1-349-50321-5 / 1349503215
ISBN-13	978-1-349-50321-6 / 9781349503216
Zustand	Neuware