Though the term “existential sentence” goes back at least as far as, p. 155) and is used in
descriptions of many languages to refer to a designated construction, it is difficult to identify …

The Objects of Thought addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about
what does not exist. Tim Crane argues that the representation of the non-existent is a …

This article is about the typology of inverse locational predication, commonly called
existential predication, illustrated by English There is a book on the table. After discussing …

This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences
(there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects …

Milsark introduced the terms weak and strong to distinguish (respectively) the nominals that
could appear in English there‐existential sentences (eg, some trees, cf. There are some …

We investigate the nature of morphological ergativity through the ergative/split-S system of
Basque. We show that in Basque ergative case and agreement reflect structural rather than …

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to spend four wonderful years at the Center for
Language and Cognition in Groningen and to be able to work on this thesis (besides other …

Introducing some of the foundational concepts, principles and techniques in the formal
semantics of natural language, Elements of Formal Semantics outlines the mathematical …

Languages display a rich array of strategies for the expression of information structure, with
elements from different areas of the grammar–syntax, phonology, morphology–exploited for …

This chapter presents an overview of different approaches to the challenge of
accommodating plurals and collectivity in formal semantics. It concentrates on plurals in …