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Rubovitz, Tali. 1999. Evidential-Existentials: The interaction between discourse and sentence structure. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (8) : 1025–1040.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This paper explains the distribution of apparently unrelated linguistic constructions in English and Modern Hebrew in terms of the notion of 'Evidential-Existentials', which can be defined as linguistic constructions whose discourse function confirms the existence of an entity by conventional implicature.