A semantics for the English existential construction:
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| Item Description: | Zugl.: Santa Cruz, Calif., Univ., Diss. u.d.T.: MacNally, Louise: An interpretation for the English existential construction |
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| adam_text | A SEMANTICS FOR
THE ENGLISH
EXISTENTIAL
CONSTRUCTION
LOUISE McNALLY
GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC
NEW YORK 8C LONDON /1997
Contents
The Problem 3
1 1 Introduction 3
1 2 Facts to be Accounted For 7
121 The Definiteness Effect 8
122 The Predicate Restriction 12
1 3 Previous Analyses 14
131 TAere-Insertion and Its Descendants 14
132 Previous Characterizations of the DE 24
133 The Predicate Restriction 36
1 4 Outline of Remaining Chapters 38
Notes 40
Existential Syntax 45
2 1 Introduction 45
2 2 Identifying VP-Adjuncts 46
221 Description 46
222A Proposal for Depictive Adjuncts 49
2 3 Why a DP-External XP Must Be Posited 50
231 Arguments for Independence 51
232 Williams Counterarguments 55
2 4 Supporting the Adjunct Analysis 57
241 Stowell s Small Clause Diagnostics 58
242 Extraction N 66
2 5 Chapter Summary 72
Notes 74
vn
viii Contents
3 The Existential, Descriptions, and Instantiation 77
3 1 Introduction 77
3 2 Data to Be Accounted For 82
321 Quantificational DPs 82
322 Scope 82
323 Contact Clauses 84
324 Relative Clauses 85
3 3 Property Theory 86
331 The Syntax of PT 87
332 The Interpretation of PT 89
3 4 Interpreting the Existential 91
341A Dynamic PT Fragment of English 91
342 Interpreting Existential Sentences 103
3 5 Definites and the Other Half of the DE 116
351 Augmenting the Fragment 116
352A Felicity Condition on Existentials 120
353 Summary 125
3 6 Advantages of the Analysis 125
361 Acceptability of Quantified Kind DPs 130
362 Quantification and Scope 133
363 Contact Clauses 135
364 Relativization 136
365 Summary 143
Notes 144
4 Adjunct Predicates and the Predicate Restriction 151
4 1 Introduction 151
4 2 Interpreting Depictive Adjuncts 152
421 The Adjunct Rule 154
422 Individual/Stage Sensitivity 157
4 3 Extending the Analysis 167
431 Nominalized Functions as Controllers 167
432 The Predicate Restriction Revisited 170
4 4 Eventive Existentials 171
441 The Problem , 171
442 Eventive Participles Are No^ Adjuncts 173
443 Why These Existentials Are Not Passives 176
444A Proposal 177
4 5 Chapter Summary 185
Contents ix
Notes 187
5 Some Final Remarks 191
5 1 Introduction 191
5 2 Definites in the Existential 193
521 List Existentials 193
522 Focus and the Existential 197
5 3 Other Expectations 199
531 Other Expletive There Sentences 199
532 The Existential and Other Indexicals 201
Notes 203
References 205
Index 217
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