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Publication details [#9133]

Steinmann, Martin Jr. 1974. On McCawley on propositions and noun phrases. In Shuy, Roger W. and Charles-James N. Bailey, eds. Towards tomorrow's linguistics. Georgetown University Press. pp. 65–71.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

existential utterance | illocution | noun phrase | proposition

Person as a subject

McCawley, J.D.

Annotation

S. claims that if a noun phrase is the subject of an existential sentence, it is not a 'genuine' noun phrase, because, if an utterance of a sentence is to count as an illocutionary act, then every 'genuine' noun phrase in it must have a referent.