In:Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena
[Human Cognitive Processing 76] 2023
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 5 July 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.76.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.76.toc
Table of contents
FundingVII
ContributorsIX
Chapter 1.Existential constructions: In search of a definition1
Laure Sarda
Ludovica Lena
Part I.Existence and related constructions
Chapter 2.Existential predication and have-possessive constructions in the languages of the world34
Denis Creissels
Chapter 3.Impersonal existence in the weather domain: French il y a vs. il fait68
Machteld Meulleman
Katia Paykin
Part II.Existence and information structure
Chapter 4.Pure existentials vs. pure presentationals: Finding an existence out(side) of place102
Livio Gaeta
Chapter 5.Presentational clefts, existentials and information structure: A comparative perspective on French and Italian139
Anne Carlier
Karen Lahousse
Chapter 6.On a continuum from categorical to thetic judgment: Indefinite subjects and locatives in Hungarian and French180
Zsuzsanna Gécseg
Laure Sarda
Part III.Existence and quantification
Chapter 7.The Finnish existential clause: Aspect, case marking and quantification of the S argument220
Tuomas Huumo
Chapter 8.Partition and existence: The case of you ren ‘there’s someone, there are people’ in Chinese245
Ludovica Lena
Part IV.Existence and negation
Chapter 9.Is the French verb manquer ‘lack, miss’ a negative existential predicate?284
Danièle Van de Velde
Chapter 10.‘To be’ and its negation in Latvian301
Daniel Petit
Chapter 11.Words also exist in a world: On the pattern ‘X’ does not exist; it’s called ‘Y’325
Bert Cappelle
Index
Language index
