There be- and have-sentences: different semantics, different definiteness effects
Edward Keenan coined the term “existential-have” for have-sentences containing a relational noun in object position that present a definiteness effect (DE) similar to the one in there be-sentences. We begin this paper by showing in detail that the DE in these sentences is in fact different from the...
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De Gruyter
2019
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