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

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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 nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.

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Product Details
Routledge
1138969273 / 9781138969278
Paperback / softback
415
26/11/2015
United Kingdom
English
272 pages
24 cm