{"product_id":"9781138969285","title":"Existential Sentences in English (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term \u003ci\u003eexistential sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence of the unstressed, non-deictic, ‘existential’ \u003ci\u003ethere\u003c\/i\u003e. Thus the term will be used as a characterisation of a class of syntactic objects, not as a semantic description. With ES sentences including formations such as ‘There were several people talking’ and ‘There ensued a riot’, perhaps nowhere else do we find so clearly displayed the complexity and subtlety of the syntactic and semantic interactions which determine the nature of human language. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48730358939883,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":126.33,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781138969285-1.jpg?v=1781659617","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781138969285","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}