Existential Sentences (Rle Linguistics B: Grammar): Their Structure and Meaning

by Michael Lumsden

Book Overview

What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415723698
• ISBN13: 9780415723695
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"