Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) by Gary L. Milsark
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415725658 | 272 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB
In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence of the unstressed, non-deictic, ‘existential’ there.