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Publication details [#11961]

Ward, Gregory and Betty J. Birner. 1997. Response to Abbott. Language 73 (1) : 109–112. 4 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

existential presupposition | given vs. new information | noun phrase

Language as a subject

English

Person as a subject

Abbott, B.

Place, Publisher

Linguistic Society of America

ISBN

0097-8507

Annotation

Abbott's counterevidence of postverbal noun phrases in English existential THERE-sentences is discarded as signifying acceptance of new instantiations.