Existence: Semantics and Syntax

I. The Interpretation of the Copula

1. Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English
Ronnie Cann

2. Constituent Questions and the Copula of Specification
Ileana Comorovski

3. Predication and Equation in Copular Sentences: Russian vs. English
Ljudmila Geist

4. On Davidsonian and Kimian States
Claudia Maienborn

II. Existential Sentences Across Languages

5. Focus and the Basic Function of Chinese Existential You-Sentences
Jianhua Hu, Haihua Pan

6. Existential Sentences, BE, and the Genitive of Negation in Russian
Barbara H. Partee, Vladimir Borschev

7. Negative Quantification and Existential Sentences
Lucia M. Tovena

III. Existence and the Interpretation of Noun Phrases

8. Existence, Maximality, and the Semantics of Numeral Modifiers
Francis Corblin

9. Existential Import
Bart Geurts

10. Referentially Anchored Indefinites
Klaus Heusinger

11. On Singular Existential Quantifiers in Italian
Roberto Zamparelli

DRM-restrictions

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Keywords: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics LAN009000