English presentative sentences with have
| Autor: | Gabriela Brůhová, Markéta Malá |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Linguistica Pragensia, Vol 29, Iss 2, Pp 160-177 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 18059635 0862-8432 1805-9635 |
| DOI: | 10.14712/18059635.2019.2.3 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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