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Published 2023.
This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ...
Published 2023.
This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to 'prototypical' existential (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships between locative, existential, and information structure, (iii) the quantification of the pivot and (iv) the issue of negative existential. It brings together different and complementary approaches (functional, cognitive, pragmatic, typological, comparative, diachronic, philosophical) based on a wide variety of data sources. The contributions illustrate how the so-called existential construction can take a variety of forms - grammaticalized - and functions - ranging from the expression of literal existence to that of localization and discursive focus - in a wide range of languages. The book will be valuable for linguists, researchers, or students, interested in the cross-linguistic manifestations of existential constructions at the interface between syntax, semantics, and information structure.
