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Publication details [#8809]
Sheintuch, Gloria. 1981. The 'there-insertion construction' in English: A pragmatic strategy for promoting certain syntactic structures. Glossa 14 (2) : 168–188.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
S. examines the acceptability distributions of grammatical pairs of existentials (the there-insertion variety and the regular variety) in an effort to discover some of the pragmatic functions of there-insertion (one of them being the promotion of syntactic structures that would otherwise be unacceptable.