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Peer reviewedWard, Gregory; Birner, Betty – Language, 1995
Presents an account of existential "there"-sentences in which the postverbal negative phrase (NP) is required to represent a "hearer-new" entity. The article identifies five types of formally definite yet hearer-new NPs that may occur in "there"-sentences. The restriction against definite NPs in "there"-sentences results from a mismatch in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Negative Forms (Language)
