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Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena
[
Human Cognitive Processing
76] 2023
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Index
A
absence
88, 91, 97–98, 299
absolute existence
73
abundance verb
290–91, 298
accomplishment verb
193, 233–234
accusative
45, 53, 62, 71–72, 115, 148, 187, 205, 229, 237, 239, 241, 305
achievement verb
119, 193, 233–234, 241
actant H
115
action (verb)
69, 192, 196–198
activity (verb)
193, 233–34, 239
actual / actuality
226, 271, 274
adessive
39, 106
adjectival
modifier (
or
qualifier)
95–97, 203
predicate
183, 320
adverbial
quantifier
88–92, 290–92
durative
234–35, 237, 239
locative
17, 191, 226–27
time (
or
time-frame, temporal)
17, 183, 236–41
affected patient (non-affected patient)
191–92, 204, 206
agent (role)
62, 68, 114, 191–92, 202, 204, 206
agentive verb
196–97
agreement
5, 8, 18, 45, 57–58, 83, 115–16, 148–49, 159, 220–25, 241
aktionsart
193–94, 205, 209, 213
aligned translation
19, 180–81, 186–87, 189, 210, 272, 274
all-focus
11, 13, 21
all-new sentence
114, 164 ;
See also
thetic sentence
alternating construction
287, 289–93
anaphor
153, 155, 172, 254, 288–89, 333 ;
See also
anaphoric pronoun
anaphoric-partitive
256–57, 266
anchor / anchoring
115, 180, 182, 187, 191, 195, 207, 262
archaic
78, 83, 148, 204, 308, 310, 316
argument structure
50, 147–48
ascriptive construction
107–10
aspectuo-temporal
90
a/symmetric negatives
80, 302–3
atelic
vs.
telic predicate
184, 193–96, 202–6, 208–9, 214
atmospheric
23, 68, 70, 73–74, 77, 80, 84, 88, 92, 97–98
B
bad topic
180–81
bare noun (
or
bare nominal)
81–82, 193, 200, 202–4, 247, 252–53, 254 sq., 268, 287–90
bare plural
193, 200, 203, 257
be
verb
1, 4, 18, 37, 102, 121
be/have
36, 58–61
biclausal construction
24, 141, 247–54
binominal
90
bounded existence
264–65
brand-new referent
See
new referent
C
c’è-
sentence
See ci-
sentence
canonical (position of the) subject
5, 20–21, 221–22, 251
canonical construction
17, 19–21, 51, 152, 220, 224, 249, 251, 293, 303
categorical
11, 21, 70, 98, 181–83, 201, 210–11, 213–14
causative
114, 313
ci
-sentence
14, 122, 142, 153–56
classifier
247, 267
clause sequence
325, 333, 338, 343
cleft construction (
or
predicate, sentence)
15, 23, 70, 113, 123, 126, 130, 139, 142–43, 149, 156–57, 164, 174, 248–49, 252, 280
coda
3, 6–7, 114–15, 140–41, 152–56, 160–61, 165–69, 171, 257–58
coercion
253, 259, 265, 267
cognitive grammar
11, 24, 222, 227, 229
collective
vs.
distributive reading
232–40
coming into being
196–97, 214
coming into situation
196–97, 214
comitative-possessee construction
38, 41, 60–62
constituent order
See
word order
copula
21, 41, 48, 58–59, 304, 316–17
existential
1, 4–5, 8, 12, 18, 23–24, 194
count noun
90, 286
crosslinguistic perspective
4, 14–15, 181, 249, 317
crypto-indefinite
92
D
dative
53, 286, 288
declefting
141
dedicated inverse-locational predicator
44
defectivity
314–15, 318
definiteness
106, 115, 145
effect (
or
restrictions)
6, 13–15, 92–93, 95, 200
deictic construction
123
deictic existential
122
deictic locative
14, 122, 150, 153, 155–56, 162
deixis / deictic
110–13, 116–17, 122–23, 126, 132–33, 150, 162, 172, 190, 263–64, 271, 311, 313, 318
demonstrative determiner
94–95, 97
deontic (auxiliary)
273–75
deontic existentials
273
detopicalization
116
diachronic
61, 68, 291
diathesis
289, 291
discourse-configurational language
23, 180–81, 186
discourse context
13, 164, 167–68, 171–72, 248, 256, 265–66
discourse function
6, 9, 12, 15, 17, 139, 198, 222, 231, 249
discourse-old
vs.
discourse-new
3, 18, 150, 165, 172, 222, 225, 231, 250, 254, 256, 327, 341
distributive
232, 237–40
double contrast
169–72
drift
134
See also have-
drift
duration
84, 90, 234–35, 237, 239
dynamic event (verbs)
74–75, 111, 113, 190, 195, 246, 258
E
ecce
132–34
echoic use
331, 334–35, 342
empiricist attitude
103, 106
entity (ENT)
105, 114–16
entity-central
vs.
event-central
70–71, 184–85, 202, 212
entity-referring
253, 270–71, 273–74
entity viewpoint
vs.
situation viewpoint
21
episodic
6, 10, 263–65, 273
etymology
5, 310–13, 318
evidential marker
261
exist
2, 7, 9–10, 35, 111, 117, 223, 327
existence
1–3, 35, 70, 118, 143, 147, 157, 171, 210, 274, 290, 296, 316–17
bounded
264–65
literal
2–3, 11, 18, 248, 270, 274 ;
See also
pure existence
existential closure
185, 190
existential copula
See
be
verb,
and
copula
existential-locative
143, 171 ;
See also
locative existential
existential marker
145–46, 151, 156, 165, 168
existential predicate (
or
verb)
20, 24–25, 55, 146, 148, 151, 184, 206, 223, 245–47, 254, 285, 290–92, 298, 313, 316–17, 334
existential presupposition
327
existential construction (
or
sentence, clause)
7–11, 34–35, 70–71, 140–142, 220–223, 245–246, 285, 327
experiencer
192, 202, 204, 286
expletive
3–4, 44–46, 48, 50–51, 110–11, 116, 125, 152, 289, 291, 297
external syntax
127, 131, 133
external viewpoint
11, 18, 222
F
facere
68
facit
71, 73–74
faire
69–74
familiarity condition
200
Figure
5, 9, 20, 35, 43–44, 52–54, 147, 227, 317 ;
See also
Ground
focus
20–21, 24, 27, 30–31, 126–27, 138, 152, 154, 162–63, 165, 171–72, 175–78, 217, 278–79, 281
broad
6–7, 11, 13–15, 21, 23, 114, 138–39, 152, 154–56, 162–65, 171–72, 174, 279–80
contrastive
6–7, 22, 169, 171
narrow
6–7, 15, 152–55, 162, 165–68, 171, 173–74
focus structure
14, 22, 154, 252
force
90, 191–92
form-based classification
3, 8–9, 19, 222–23, 227, 241
formulaic expression
92
formulaic construction
105, 109
frequency adverb (
or
quantifying adverb)
121, 270–73, 274–76
functions of existential constructions
2–3, 9, 12–15, 71, 149, 154, 159, 171, 231, 250, 265
G
geben
5, 18, 115, 118
general-locational
43–44, 58
General Locational Predication (GLP)
44, 48, 58, 60, 63
genericity
115, 225–26, 253, 260–61, 263–65, 267, 269–70, 275–76
genitive of negation
305
genitive-possessor
39, 60
grammaticalization
8, 23, 103, 133–34, 140, 174, 312
Ground
5–7, 9, 17, 20, 35, 43–44, 51, 53–54, 56, 62, 147, 227, 317 ;
See also
Figure
H
haber
4–5, 44, 48
habitual
70, 119, 121, 193, 270–7, 317
have
-drift
34, 37, 40–41, 52, 55, 58, 60
have
-ILP
22, 43–48 ;
See also
Inverse Locational Predication (ILP)
have
-possessive construction
22, 34–42
have
verb
34 sq., 44, 58, 144–6, 148, 159, 246, 250, 285, 292, 304 sq.
I
Idealized Cognitive Model
123, 133–34
identifiability
181, 211, 213, 252, 268, 274
identifiable
vs.
unidentifiable referent
22, 125, 182, 252, 268–69
idiomatic expression
97, 187, 231
il fait
-construction
83, 98
ILP
See
Inverse Locational Predication
il y a-
construction
21, 70–71, 122, 139–43, 249
y avoir
19, 69, 285, 291, 298
imperfective
261–62, 314
impersonal construction
13, 45, 51, 68–71, 77–81, 95, 125, 156, 183, 284–86, 291, 293, 304–5, 319
impersonalization
22, 34, 37, 44, 49, 62
incorporated-possessee construction
38, 40, 51, 62
incorporation
288–89, 314, 318
indefinite
article
83–84, 88, 95, 97, 200–4, 287, 299
non-partitive
181–82, 254, 257
non-specific
182, 184, 201, 203, 207, 273, 296
subject
19, 23, 180–92, 198 sq.
indefiniteness
20, 114, 187, 220–21, 223, 226, 235, 270
individual-level predicate
6, 119, 121, 247, 252–65, 270–73 ;
See also
stage-level predicate
inexistence
284, 299
information structure
11, 13, 15, 20, 25, 35, 148, 154, 162 sq., 223, 227, 231, 341
in/sufficiency
284, 292, 294–95, 297–99
intensity
85, 89–90, 92, 97
intensive
85, 294
internal syntax
127, 130–31
interro-negation
125, 129
intransitive
use
58, 60, 312
predication (verb)
38, 68, 197, 204–5, 209, 233
construction
49, 55
non-existential intransitive clause
21, 220–28, 230, 239
Inverse Locational Predication (ILP)
5, 10, 16–17, 34–37, 43–50, 61–62
K
kind-referring
253, 269, 274
L
lexicalization
96
light noun
90–92
light verb
68–69
list-reading
7, 93, 97, 115, 168
localizing transitive construction
188
locational-possessive construction
23, 42
locative construction
105, 121, 159
locative expression (
or
constituent)
6, 17, 27, 149, 153–55, 165, 167, 180, 182–85, 202 sq., 246
locative hypothesis
13, 22–23
locative inversion
2, 17–20, 183, 253, 267
locative paradigm
102, 105
locative particle
105, 108
locative source
103, 120, 123
locative-existential
304–5, 307–08, 312, 327, 338
locatum
145, 147–49, 160, 174
locus
145, 147, 158, 165, 208, 265
longitudinal quantity
236–40
M
manquer
284 sq., 294 sq.
mass noun
80, 88–90 sq., 200, 220–21 sq., 287–89
mental space
343
metalinguistic negation
325, 335
middle-passive
113
mono-argumentality
115
monoclausal
247, 249–51, 263, 265
motion verb
3, 190, 196–97, 207, 246, 252
N
narrow focus
See
focus
natural forces (
or
natural phenomena)
68–69, 71, 90
necessity
274, 294, 319
negation
25–27, 87, 89, 124, 224, 230, 284 sq., 301–5 sq., 325 sq.
descriptive
vs.
metalinguistic negation
325–31, 343 sq.
negation of existence
25, 298, 313, 325
negative
existential
25–27, 91, 284 sq., 292, 302 sq., 308, 325, 332–34, 339, 341–43
existential cycle
25
prefix
328, 332, 334
sentence (
or
utterance, clause)
47, 79, 81–82, 87–88, 91–92, 94–95, 316, 321, 330–34
neutral sentence
198–200, 207
neutralization
5, 89, 116, 222, 267, 314
new entity
71, 114, 141, 153
new referent (
or
brand-new, hearer-new referent)
15, 21–22, 107, 109, 145–146, 151, 158–159, 181, 185, 201–2, 212, 207, 211–12, 250
nominal sentence
319–22
non affected patient
See
affected patient
non-canonicity
2–3, 9–10, 16–17, 19–21, 24, 26
non-canonical syntax (
or
morphosyntax, construction)
3, 9, 10, 16, 19, 21, 27, 53, 70, 105, 213
non-cleft
23, 165–174
non-existential (form, clause, sentence, construction)
3, 19–21, 220–21, 224–26 sq.
non-topical
13–15, 19–20, 145–49, 164, 174, 186, 201, 252
non-universality
248, 268–69
non-verbal predication
29, 137, 177
See nominal sentence
norm
3, 56, 229, 284, 292, 294–95, 297
numeral
88–89, 92, 97, 247, 267, 297
O
Obligatory-Subject Languages
111
obligatory vs. optional presence of locatives
187–88 sq., 202, 205
oblique-possessor
37, 39, 42, 51–57, 60, 62
onomasiological (approach, format, content, domain)
23, 102–6, 111–13, 116–18, 134
ontological
181, 189–90, 213
ontology
189, 192, 204, 208, 214
origo
126
ownership
143–47
P
partition
250, 266, 269, 277, 296
partitive article
80, 83–87, 97 sq., 287
partitive case
18, 24, 221–25, 228–38, 241
partitive pronoun
107, 110
partitive reading
21, 24, 84, 181–82, 210–12, 221, 223–24, 231–32, 247, 254–57, 296
passive construction
83, 108, 130, 250
path
190, 228
natural path
227
patient
53, 62, 68, 191–92, 239–40
perception
5, 117, 206, 313
perspectivization
10–11, 20, 34–35, 37, 43–44, 49, 227
pivot
3–6, 13–15, 18–22, 24–25, 140, 148–49, 160 sq., 250–53, 254 sq.
contrastive
169–71
definite
13–15, 81, 92 sq., 164–70, 247
generic
226, 255–56, 265, 268
quantified
251, 255–56
place holder
109
Plain Locational Predication (PLP)
10, 16–17, 34–36, 38, 43–44, 227
pointing
123, 133–34
polarity
negative
80, 86–88, 298, 302–3, 308, 318–19
positive
81–83, 90, 95, 97, 285, 298, 302, 308 sq.
polyfunctionality (
or
multifunctionality, multifunctional)
3, 10–12, 25, 27, 275–76
possessee
34–35, 37–39 sq., 145, 147–48
possession
2, 5, 22–23, 35–37, 39–40, 45–46, 48, 51–54, 58, 60–62, 64–66, 112, 143–45, 147–49 sq.
possessive construction (
or
clause)
22, 28, 34, 36, 37–42, 44–46, 49 sq., 54 sq., 112, 304–5
possessor
34–39, 41, 44–46, 49–56, 58 sq., 147, 149, 288, 293, 295–97
genitive-possessor
39, 60
oblique-possessor
37, 39, 42, 51, 53 sq., 62
S-possessor
38
posture verb
3, 17, 60, 194, 205–6, 246, 261
postverbal (argument, noun phrase, subject)
3, 19, 140, 149, 162, 184, 199, 203, 209–10, 221, 246, 252
precipitation
74–76
predicate
episodic
258, 270, 272
eventive
183–85
negative
285, 294
stative
60, 183–85, 190, 202
telic
184, 193
presence
1, 3, 9, 12, 35, 43, 70–71, 196, 214
presentational (
or
presentative)
3, 14–15, 70–71, 117–18, 122 sq., 132 sq., 141–43, 149–50, 154 sq., 162, 164, 171, 247, 249–50, 252, 311, 313, 316, 318
presupposition
326–27
preverb
205, 207–8, 303
preverbal subject
3, 19–21, 23–24, 182–85, 212–13, 251, 267–68
proform
3–4
pronoun
anaphoric
153, 156, 289, 333
correlative
108, 110
demonstrative
111, 132
expletive
See
expletive
locative
140, 142, 153, 155–56
oblique
107–8, 110
personal
14, 53, 107–9, 117, 128, 149, 289
prototype
223, 227, 231
proximal (
vs.
distal)
125–26
pseudo-relative clause
141–42, 149, 155, 162, 165, 168, 170–71, 174
punctual
84–85, 88, 234–36, 257, 260
pure existence
3, 11, 18, 119
pure existential
118 sq.
pure presentational
122 sq.
Q
quantification / quantificational
25, 96, 224, 237–38, 250, 270–73, 285, 290–91, 327
quantifier
81, 88–89, 91–92, 124, 228–33, 235–41, 243–44, 284, 291–92, 294
adverbial
88–89, 92, 97, 291–92
existential
288
mass
220, 228–30, 233, 238
number
80, 88, 99, 224, 227–33, 238 sq.
quantitative analysis
88, 92
quantity
85, 89–90, 221, 224, 228–32, 235–41, 290–92, 294–99
quantity noun
89–90, 291
R
reality
274, 326, 343–44
reanalysis
6, 41, 53–56, 60, 312–13, 321
reductionism
102–3
reflexive-anticausative construction
113, 313
rhematic content
114, 131
rhematic location (
or
rhematic-locational)
12–13, 18, 43, 145–49, 151, 157–59, 165, 171, 172, 174
rhematic possession (
or
rhematic-possessive)
145, 147–49, 157, 159
rhetorical device
339–44
S
scope of negation
87, 89, 284, 292, 299, 328–29, 334–35, 343
S
e
argument
5, 11, 24, 220–22, 224 sq., 228–32, 233 sq.
semantic classes of eventualities
196–98, 213–14
semasiological (approach, content, format)
102–6, 107 sq., 117–18, 121, 134
semasiology
104 sq.
source construction
25, 40 sq., 54, 103–4, 111–13, 117–18, 120–21
space
43, 111, 115, 117–19, 157–58, 183, 185, 262 sq.
spatial deixis
111, 116–17
spatial dimension
23, 102–3, 111, 118, 123, 134
spatio-temporal (anchoring, localization, location, parameters, reference
,
setting)
6, 156, 172, 180–83, 202, 248, 258, 262–66
specialized construction
3, 9, 12 sq., 19–21, 27, 70, 97, 247 ;
See also
non-canonical
specific indefinite
15, 182, 200, 207
spoken corpus
248
stage-level predicate
6, 119–21, 134, 247–48, 256–60, 270, 273, 275
stage topic
183
state
ambient
23, 84–85, 88, 90, 97–98
mental
208
state verb (stative verb
or
predicate)
111–12, 117, 183–85, 190, 194, 202, 206, 233, 235, 258
stative construction (
or
sentence)
112, 194, 203, 205, 207
storm
72–75, 77
stress
114, 205, 303
subject
agentive
213–14
inverted
52–53
postverbal
209–10
subject-verb agreement
45, 220–21, 225
subject-verb order (SV)
2–3, 20, 141, 175, 186, 251, 274–75
substance
74–77, 84–85, 88–89, 99, 224, 229
superlative
92
suppletion
303–10, 313–15
support noun
90
swarm
-verbs
285, 288–90
T
telic (aspect, construction, event)
184, 193–96, 202–3, 205–9, 213–14
text cohesion
109
thematic location
43, 145, 147–48, 152–53, 157, 159
thematic possession
145, 147–48, 157
thematic role
17, 181, 189, 191–92, 202, 204, 206
thematic hierarchy
202
theme
192, 285–99
there be
-ILP
44
See also
Inverse Locational Predication (ILP)
thetic (construction, judgment, sentence, statement)
6, 11, 13, 16, 21, 24, 70, 98–99, 104, 106, 114, 132, 181 sq., 190, 202, 210 sq.
thetic/categorical distinction
11, 21, 24, 183, 210 sq.
theticity
12, 21, 132
topicality
11, 53–54, 62, 181–82, 210–12, 214
topicalization
53–56, 60, 182
topic group
202–4, 210–14
topic position
54–55, 198–205, 207, 209, 212
transfer verb
117
transitive (clause, construction)
34–35, 41, 45, 49, 52–55, 58, 60, 71, 108, 187–88, 204–5, 291, 312
transitive verb
36, 39–40, 56, 58, 61–62, 128–30, 188, 195, 197, 202, 204–5, 211, 213, 250, 291, 312–13
transitivity spread
71
transitivization
23, 37, 40–42, 51 sq., 62
truth conditions
26, 193, 251, 268, 328–30, 333–36
U
unaccusative verb
129–31, 206, 246, 262, 267, 291, 293
underlying locative structure
13, 22–23, 61–62
universality (semantic)
24, 267–69, 275
use-mention mix
330, 333, 335
V
variation in existential constructions
1–3, 8–9, 105
verbal modifier position (VM)
198–200, 203–6, 208–10, 212–14
viewpoint
11, 18, 20–21, 35, 222 ;
See also
external viewpoint
voilà
122–34
W
weak
definite
288, 290
indefinite
181–82, 288, 296
weather noun
68–69, 72–74, 76–80, 82–83, 87–90, 92–94, 97
weather verb
68–72, 77–78
world of words
336–39, 343