existential sentence

Synonym(s)

Sources

• TRASK 1993 96-97

  TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

• LYONS 1971 389

  LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

• DIK I 1997 209 (existential construction)

  DIK, Simon C. (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Part 1, 2nd edition: The Structure of the Clause. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 80

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• QUIRK etal. 1985 1402-1403

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• WALES 1989 162-163

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• DIK 1978 186-187

  DIK, Simon C. (1978) Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.

• EGGINS 1994 254-255 (existential (n.))

  EGGINS, Suzanne. (1994) An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics. London: Pinter Publishers.

• ELL 5119

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• PEI & GAYNOR 1954 69

  PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

• MATTHEWS 1997 121

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 131 (existential sentence structure)

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.

• CRYSTAL 2003 170

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.