Existential Constructions across Languages

Existential Constructions across Languages
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9789027252883
ISBN-13 : 9027252882
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Download or read book Existential Constructions across Languages written by Laure Sarda and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships between locative, existential, and information structure, (iii) the quantification of the pivot and (iv) the issue of negative existentials. It brings together different and complementary approaches (functional, cognitive, pragmatic, typological, comparative, diachronic, philosophical) based on a wide variety of data sources. The contributions illustrate how the so-called existential construction can take a variety of forms – more or less grammaticalized – and functions – ranging from the expression of literal existence to that of localization and discursive focus – in a wide range of languages. The book will be valuable for linguists, researchers or students, interested in the cross-linguistic manifestations of existential constructions at the interface between syntax, semantics and information structure.


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