Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • 0. INTRODUCTION: THE ENGLISH EXISTENTIAL AND UNIVERSALS OF LANGUAGE
  • 0.1. The English Existential
  • 0.2. The English Existential and Language Universals
  • 1. THE PHRASE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
  • 1.1. The Competing Hypotheses
  • 1.2. The Distribution of there in Deep Structure
  • 1.3. The Agreement and the Progressive Conditions
  • 1.4. There as a Determiner
  • 1.5. Conclusion
  • 2. THE PHRASE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND CLEFT REDUCTION
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. The Reduced Cleft Analysis
  • 2.3. Other Cases of Cleft Reduction
  • 2.4. Conclusion3. THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS
  • 3.1. There-insertion
  • 3.2. There-insertion and the Cycle
  • 3.3. There-insertion and Derived Constituent Structure
  • 3.4. There-insertion and the Feature (In)definite
  • 3.5. There-insertion and Semantic Features (Agency, Genericity, and (In)alienability)
  • 3.6. Conclusion
  • 4. STANDARD THERE-INSERTION
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. The Two bes Argument
  • 4.3. The Semi-modal Argument
  • 4.4. The Predicate Nominal Argument
  • 4.5. Other Arguments
  • 4.6. Conclusion
  • 5. THERE-INSERTION AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. The E Rule
  • 5.3. The Leftmost be Condition
  • 5.4. The Semi-modal Restriction
  • 5.5. The Definiteness Restriction
  • 5.6. The Predicate Restriction
  • 5.7. Extraction Arguments
  • 5.8. Other Arguments
  • 5.9. Stress in Existentials
  • 6. THE STRUCTURE-PRESERVING ANALYSIS OF THERE-INSERTION
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. The Optional/Obligatory Argument
  • 6.3. The Semi-modal Argument
  • 6.4. The Predicate Restriction
  • 6.5. Criticism of the Structure-preserving Formulation
  • 7. THERE-INSERTION IN GENERATIVE SEMANTICS7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Criticism of McCawleyâ€?s Analysis
  • 8. LOCATIVE ANALYSES OF THERE-INSERTION
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. The Locative Analysis of Kuno
  • 8.3. The Locative Analysis of Kimball
  • 8.4. The Case Grammar Analysis
  • 9. CONCLUSION
  • 10. BIBLIOGRAPHY