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.
| ISBN: | 9781138969278 |
| Publication date: | 26th November 2015 |
| Author: | Michael Lumsden |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology |
What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions?
Existential Sentences features in the following genres: Grammar, syntax and morphology
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Existential Sentences was written by Michael Lumsden and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Existential Sentences has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics series
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