| Autor: |
Brůhová, Gabriela, Malá, Markéta |
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Linguistica Pragensia (Charles University Prague, Faculty of Arts); 2019, Issue 2, p160-177, 18p |
| Abstrakt: |
The paper explores the potential of English sentences with the verb have to constitute the Presentation Scale. Have-presentative sentences, in which the verb is devoid of its possessive meaning, can be viewed as an alternative to the "full presentative" there-constructions. Both constructions contain an indefinite noun phrase presenting new information, and they share the communicative function of introducing a new referent into discourse, cf. We have a long trip ahead of us vs. There's a long trip ahead of us. Presentative sentences with have are described and classified with respect to the animacy, semantics and reference of the subject, the presence of a locative adverbial, and the semantics of the object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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