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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 . Thus the term will be used as a... Read more
Part 1: Do We Have to Have a There-Insertion Rule? 1. ES and the There-Insertion Analysis 2. Emonds’ Analysis 3. The PS Hypothesis 4. The Cleft Reduction Hypothesis 5. The Loc-Front Proposal Part 2: What Can Be Done About It? 6. Ontological, Locational, and Periphrastic ES 7. Verbal ES
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Gary L. Milsark
