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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- There-sentences
- existential sentences
- Subject
- predicate
- subjectless sentences
- Thetic sentence
- thetic judgment
- Speech acts
- speech acts
- truth
- Definiteness restriction
- definiteness effects
- Stage-level
- individual level distinction
- predicate restriction
- Context
- context sensitivity
- Expletive there
- Strong-weak distinction
- strong quantifiers
- discourse
- Negation
- subject
- Verb
Authors and Affiliations
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Long Island University, USA
Rachel Szekely
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Truth without Predication
Book Subtitle: The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence
Authors: Rachel Szekely
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137483294
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48328-7Published: 26 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50321-6Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48329-4Published: 12 February 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-2576
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2584
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 169
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, general, Syntax, Pragmatics, Grammar